MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Shackleton Fund donation from South Georgia Climb.
The Shackleton Scholarship Fund which benefits the Falkland Islands has received a donation of more than a thousand pounds from the six- member team of British adventurers who earlier this year re-traced the climb across South Georgia's formidable mountains made by Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton from King Haakon Bay to Stromness in 1916.
Shackleton's epic feat inspired the 2001 Shackleton Memorial Expedition, which has also made a smaller donation to another charity, the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust.The expedition was led by 36-year-old Neil Laughton, a former Royal Marine, who took leave from his London office business.
In a letter of thanks to the Expedition Treasurer, the Chairman of the Shackleton Fund's London Committee, David Tatham, called it a "generous gift", inspired by the expedition's achievement.
Mr Tatham wrote: "We shall be able to add the sum to the Fund and use the interest to promote visits to the Falkland Islands by the scholars who will improve the quality of life there and by academics who will increase our knowledge of the South Atlantic Region... I congratulate Neil Laughton and all the team".
The expedition's Patron is Shackleton's grand-daughter, Alexandra Shackleton.
Harold Briley, London
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