Ordinary MenSouth Pole '30
Meet the Team

Four blokes. Day jobs. Stupid ideas they keep saying yes to.

A teacher, an F1 supply CTO, a Royal Engineer and a competitive rower. Three of us have already rowed an ocean — two of them together. The fourth has spent the last decade convincing himself this is a reasonable thing to do next.

Daf Helps-Fursse
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Expedition Leader · Teacher
Daf Helps-Fursse
The one who said "what if we skied to the South Pole?" and meant it. By day a teacher, by everything-else an adventurer — Atlantic rower, Mongol Rally finisher, mountaineer, chief instigator of every stupid plan the team has ever signed up to.
Atlantic Row Mongol Rally Mountaineer
Lewis Wadsley
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Engineer · F1 Supply CTO
Lewis Wadsley
CTO of an F1 supply business by day; on weekends he ultra-runs, mountaineers, skydives, scuba-dives, drives Honda Monkeys across Morocco and tuk-tuks across the Himalayas. If it can break in −40°C, Lewis has already taken it apart and put it back together.
F1 Supply CTO Ultra-runner Skydiver Himalaya Tuk-Tuk
PORTRAIT · 4:5
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Royal Engineer · 2× Ocean Rower
Richard "Wilko" Wilkinson
Royal Engineer by trade, ocean rower by reputation. Wilko's pulled across two oceans — including the Atlantic alongside Lewis as Team Oardinary Buoys in 2024. The strongest bloke any of us know and one of the most passionate people to walk into our lives. Brings the craic, brings the energy, brings the rest of us along.
Royal Engineer 2× Ocean Row Atlantic '24
PORTRAIT · 4:5
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Competitive Rower
Scott Brown
[Bio TBC — competitive rower; further details to follow.]
Competitive Rower [TBC] [TBC]
Receipts

We've done stupid things before. We've come back from all of them.

The South Pole isn't our first rodeo. Here's the track record sponsors can underwrite with confidence.

Atlantic Row
2024

Atlantic Row · Oardinary Buoys

3,000 nautical miles, La Gomera → Antigua. World's Toughest Row, as Team Oardinary Buoys. Two of the current squad were in the boat.

Distance 3,000nm Crew Oardinary Buoys Result Finished
Mongol Rally
2019

Mongol Rally

Prague → Ulan-Ude in a 1.2L Fiat Punto. 10,000 km of "motoring stupidity on a global scale". Daf, finish line, on the roof.

Distance 10,000km Car Fiat Punto Borders 15+
Himalayan Rickshaw Run
2023

Himalayan Rickshaw Run

Two weeks across northern India by tuk-tuk. Highest point: Tanglangla Pass, 17,482ft. Lewis at the top, no oxygen, no roof.

Distance 3,400km Altitude 17,482ft Engine 145cc
Morocco Monkey Run
2022

Morocco Monkey Run

2,000 km across the Moroccan desert on Honda Monkey bikes. The bikes broke. The team didn't.

Distance 2,000km Bike Honda Monkey Bikes left 1
Moments

Two years of training, misadventure, and saying yes.

Skiing in Andorra. The Carneddau in cloud. Tanglangla Pass at 17,482ft. UK Ultra finish lines. Skydives over Italy. Whatever this expedition becomes, the photo album behind it is already full.

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