Parker Liautaud

Parker Liautaud (born August 12, 1994) is a polar adventurer and environmental campaigner. By the age of 19,[1] he had undertaken three last degree expeditions to the North Pole and one to the South Pole. On December 24, 2013, Liautaud and expedition guide Doug Stoup [2] completed the Willis Resilience Expedition, a 565 km unsupported trek from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole.[3]

Parker is the son of multimillionaire venture capitalist Bernard Liautaud.

On 16 November 2014, One Young World Ambassador Parker[4] chaired a session at the One Young World Summit in Dublin, Ireland, alongside world leaders and Elders Kofi Annan and Mary Robinson,[5] to inspire ambitious action on climate change, addressing 1300 young leaders from 191 countries.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Washington Post (2013-12-19) "What it's like to trek to the South Pole"
  2. ↑ 1 "Douglas Stoup biography"
  3. ↑ Correne Coetzer (2013-09-30). "South Pole 2013-14: Doug Stoup and Parker Liautaud for Leverett Glacier route". explorersweb.com. Retrieved 2013-10-07.
  4. ↑ http://www.oneyoungworld.com/our-network/candidates-and-delegates/community/Ambassador/18360
  5. ↑ http://theelders.org/article/how-can-young-people-join-debate-about-climate-change
  6. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARDyMsXv5Kg

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