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Wally born England to an Army family, and went with his family to Egypt at the age of three, and then to South Africa for nine years. After finishing school he joined the Army, where he studied at the Royal School of Military Survey. Afterwards he spent 18 months surveying in Egypt and Cyprus. His life changed when he saw an advertisement for young men to work with the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (which became the British Antarctic Survey in 1962).

Accepted on the basis of his survey qualifications, Wally went to Hope Bay in Graham Land, a station specialising in geology and topographic survey. There he spent the winters of 1956 and 1957, becoming an enthusiastic dog sledge driver whilst mapping uncharted areas. After a number of shorter journeys, the crowning achievement of his stay was a journey with three companions down the spine of Graham Land from Hope Bay to Portal Point. Later when homeward bound, he hitch-hiked solo from Montevideo back to England, where he was employed at the Directorate of Overseas Surveys to work up...

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