Richard Brooke (explorer) explained

Richard "Brookes" Brooke (14 January 1927  - 29 June 2020) was an explorer and Royal Naval surveyor whose achievements included spending two winters on the British North‑East Greenland Expedition^[1] (1952–1954) and participating in Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (TAE) (1956–1958). During the TAE he became the first person to ascend a peak (Mount Huggins) in the Royal Society Range^[2] and walked the 1600 km between Mawson Glacier and Mulock Glacier.

He was also a licensed lay reader in the Church of England in Bath, Somerset.^[3]

He died on 29 June 2020 at the age of 93.^[4]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Gunn. Bernard. Training on the Tasman Glacier, 1956. Land of the Long Day. 13 January 2012.
2. Web site: Amodeo. Christian. Forward crawl across the White Continent. Geographical. Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers). 13 January 2012.
3. Web site: Brooke. Richard. Charlcombe Church's Richard Brooke remembers exciting journeys with Sir Edmund Hillary, and a special Thanksgiving Service at Windsor. Charlcome and Lansdown Parish News Summer 2008. Charlcombe and Bath St Stephen Parochial Church Councils. 13 January 2012.
4. https://epaper.thetimes.co.uk/the-times Richard Brooke