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Hamish Harding

 

Harding has degrees in Natural Sciences and Chemical Engineering from Cambridge University. He also holds an Airline Transport Pilots License and business jet type ratings, including the Gulfstream G650, and is a skydiver.[8][9]

 

Biography

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In 2017, Harding worked with Antarctic VIP tourism company, White Desert, to introduce the first regular business jet service to the Antarctic using a Gulfstream G550, landing on Wolfsfang Runway, a newly-created ice runway in Antarctica. Harding also visited the South Pole a number of times, accompanying Buzz Aldrin in 2016 as he became the oldest person ever to reach the South Pole (age 86).[10][11]

 

In 2019, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, Harding, along with astronaut Col. Terry Virts, led a team of aviators that captured the Guinness World Record for circumnavigation of the earth via North and South Poles in a Gulfstream G650ER in 46 hours 40 minutes.[12][13] On 9-11 July 2019, Harding together with a crew of eight astronauts and aviators broke the world speed record for the fastest circumnavigation via both poles in a Gulfstream G650ER jet. The One More Orbit mission launched and landed at the Shuttle Landing Facility (Space Florida) at NASA Kennedy Space Center, US. Harding was the mission director and led a team of over 100 to gain the Guinness World Record for the fastest circumnavigation of the earth via both poles in 46h 40m.

 

On 5 March 2021, Harding & Victor Vescovo dove to the deepest point of the Mariana Trench, the Challenger Deep, in a two-man submarine to the lowest point in the world's oceans to a depth of 36,000 ft. Here they set the world record for greatest length covered at full ocean depth, and greatest time spent at full ocean depth.[14][15][16][17][7]

 

This 13-hour underwater mission resulted in two Guinness World Records, the longest duration spent at Full Ocean Depth (4 hours 15 mins) and the longest distance traversed at Full Ocean Depth (4.6 km).[18][8]

 

Harding holds three Guinness World Records

 

2019 - The fastest circumnavigation of the Earth via both poles.

2021 - Greatest Distance Covered At Full Ocean Depth.[19]

2021 - Greatest Duration Spent At Full Ocean Depth.[14][15][16][17]

 

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