Client details
Polly Murray
Agent
| Matt Nicholls | +44 (0) 203 214 0800 |
About
| Polly is passionate about the outdoors. She has been involved in a number of adventures, exploring some of the planets most remote destinations. Polly’s experiences to date include: First Scottish woman to summit Mount Everest First person to Telemark ski off the summit of Mount McKinley in Alaska. Representing the country in Nordic skiing Competing in a world cup Telemark ski race A ski traverse of Bylot island in Northern canada with best friend Tash Wright; a remote Arctic island crossed only once previously in the 60’s by famous explorer, Bill Tilman Sailing to the remote Antarctic island of Peter Oy and the sub Antarctic island of South Georgia For the last five years Polly has been been the presenter and assistant expedition leader on the last four of the award winning BBC “Serious” series. These programmes involve taking 8 kids, aged between 12 and 15 to remote areas of the world. Locations have ranged from deep in the Amazon rainforest to high up the the Andes and as far south as Cape Horn. These trips include following in the wake of some of the worlds greatest explorers. Other television work has included a guest appearances on “Live and Deadly” , for the BBC with Steve Backshaw and “Summer at the Top” for STV. She also completed a rock climbing ascent of The Old Man of Hoy, filmed for Scottish television. Back home in Scotland Polly works as a roped access technician specializing in re-pointing and painting, she has been working on Scone palace for the last 6 years. She has spent many winters teaching skiing in the French Alps. More recently she has been running Telemark ski courses in Norway. Polly’s next trip will be again be as an Expedition leader/presenter with the BBC to follow in the footsteps of Sir Walter Raleigh, this trip will take her from Tobago into Guiana and Venezuela. Polly is 37 years old and lives in Perthshire with her husband Rich Haworth and their 5 month old son Finton. Polly is a keen interior decorator and loves to be creative. |
