It’s a great honour to be invited by the Italian Airforce to speak at The Flight of the Norge: Nobile at the North Pole conference in Rome in April 2026 to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the first ever transpolar flight.

The general title of my session? “The North Pole Challenge: The History of an Endeavour”.

The transpolar flight of the Norge is one of the great stories I tell in my critically acclaimed book N-4 DOWN: the Hunt for the Arctic airship Italia (HarperCollins, 2021),

Find out more about it here.