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Adrian Hayes〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.adrianhayes.com )〕 is a British record-breaking polar explorer and adventurer, best known for reaching the three extreme points of the Earth—the Three Poles Challenge—which involved walking all the way to the North Pole, South Pole and summiting Mt. Everest, all in the shortest period of time (1 year, 217 days - his first Guinness World record).〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.adventurestats.com/tables/threepoles.shtml )〕 Along with Canadians Devon McDiarmid and Derek Crowe, he set a second Guinness World record in 2009 for the longest unsupported snowkiting journey in Arctic history, the vertical crossing of the Greenland ice cap. In 2011 he completed a crossing of the Arabian Desert by foot and camel in a documentary filmed expedition in the footsteps of 1940s British Explorer Wilfred Thesiger. In 2014 Hayes summited the second highest mountain in the world, K2, following his unsuccessful attempt in 2013. Aside from his adventurous exploits, Hayes, an Arabic and Nepalese speaking former Gurkha Officer and Airbus Sales Director, is also a keynote speaker and business coach, specializing in leadership and team coaching and is a campaigner on various world issues, including economic, social and environmental sustainability. ==Biography== The middle of three sons, Adrian Hayes grew up in his family run hotel in the New Forest, Hampshire,〔(Money & Me: Adrian Hayes ). ''The National (UAE)'', 2 December 2010. Retrieved 18 March 2012.〕 and was educated at St Mary’s College in Southampton. Leaving school at 16, he spent six years in numerous outdoor jobs including bricklaying and farming in the UK, Norway and New Zealand; as a singer/guitarist in a rock band; and travelling the world in between on mountaineering and other adventures & expeditions. Following two years British Army service as a sabre squadron trooper in 21 SAS, he attended the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and served for eight years as an officer in the Brigade of Gurkhas in Hong Kong, Brunei and Oman, the latter a two-year secondment to the Royal Army of Oman in Salalah.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.omannews.gov.om/ona/english/newsDetails_inc.jsp?newsID=61189 )〕 After leaving the Army, he studied for an MBA at the University of Nottingham and worked in various international sales and marketing managerial positions before joining Airbus as a Regional Sales Director Middle East and West Asia from 2000–2006, based in Toulouse, France followed by Dubai, UAE. He set up his own company in 2007 becoming a full-time adventurer, speaker and business coach.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.arabiansponsorship.com/speakers/adrian-hayes.html )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Adrian Hayes (adventurer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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