{"id":15839,"date":"2024-04-09T11:55:21","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T10:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/explorersagainstextinction.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15839"},"modified":"2025-02-24T11:28:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T11:28:37","slug":"meet-ambassador-ash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/explorersagainstextinction.co.uk\/blog\/meet-ambassador-ash\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Ambassador Ash Bhardwaj"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Ash Bhardwaj will be hosting our conservation evening\u00a0at the Royal Geographical Society in London on Thursday 14 November. It promises to be a memorable event, dedicated to the wildlife and wild spaces of the world. Special guests include\u00a0Dr Julian Fennessy, Director of Conservation at Giraffe Conservation Foundation, reporting fresh from Africa&#8217;s savannah,\u00a0 and Rebecca Stephens MBE,\u00a0 the first British women to climb all seven summits.\u00a0Rebecca will be transporting us to the icy peaks of the Himalayas and reflecting on how the landscape and our relationship with it,\u00a0 is changing.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Get to know Ash<\/strong><br>Ash says that science and space were his first loves &#8211; as far as we know he hasn&#8217;t gone into orbit yet but he did have a stint&nbsp;as a sixth form Physics and Chemistry teacher!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other vocations include&nbsp; working as a cowboy in Australia, playing rugby in New Zealand, being a ski&nbsp;instructor in Switzerland for six seasons,&nbsp; and in more recent&nbsp;years, being an accomplished filmmaker and broadcaster, often reporting from some of the world&#8217;s most challenging&nbsp;locations.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Some of Ash\u2019s assignments include:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>trekking to Everest Base Camp with wounded British soldiers in 2012<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>retracing WW2 secret missions through Albania\u2019s mountains on foot<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>walking 800km through India on\u00a0<em>Walking The Himalayas<\/em>, meeting the Dalai Lama on the way<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>walking 1100km through Uganda and Sudan with Levison Wood on\u00a0<em>Walking The Nile<\/em>, including the first summer crossing of the Bayuda Desert<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>His most recent assignments include becoming a father for the first time,&nbsp; a six-part Telegraph podcast&nbsp;<em>Edgelands&nbsp;<\/em>detailing a3,500 mile journey along the new Iron Curtain,&nbsp; and a journey&nbsp;along the border between India and Pakistan for the four-part TV series&nbsp;<em>Expedition Borderlands.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ash\u2019s journalism can regularly be seen gracing the pages of The Telegraph, The Times, Huffington Post, Evening Standard and Sunday Times Travel, amongst others, and he has also made numerous&nbsp;&nbsp;appearances on the BBC\u2019s&nbsp;<em>From Our Own Correspondent<\/em>&nbsp;and fronting Radio 4 documentaries such&nbsp;as&nbsp;<em>How Ukraine Made Us Care<\/em>. 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