Briton becomes first disabled person to ski solo and unsupported to South Pole A former GB Para-athlete has made history after becoming the first disabled person to ski solo and unsupported to the South Pole.
Only 52 people have successfully skied to the South Pole without support but Mr Huntington is understood to be the first explorer with a disability to do so.
Jonny Huntington, from Kingsbridge, south Devon, covered 566 miles (911km) of Antarctic tundra in 46 days despite the effects of the debilitating stroke he suffered in 2014.
A former Army officer, Mr Huntington was left paralysed from the neck down on his left side when he suffered his stroke at the age of 28.
It took years of rehabilitation before he was able to fully walk again, and even then he was left with restricted movement down his left side.
