Partner with Ben
Sponsors & press
In November 2027 Ben Weber and Erica Stanford set out to ski 2,000 km across Antarctica — Berkner Island to the Ross Ice Shelf via the South Pole, around 120 days on the ice. The expedition is called Polar Dogs, and it needs partners.
What a partnership looks like
A partnership links your brand with an expedition that tests its team to the limit. Polar Dogs is two people, unguided, hauling everything they need across 2,000 km of the most hostile ground on Earth: up to four months of −50 °C, katabatic winds and whiteouts, on a plateau where 2,800 m feels more like 4,000. It is a proving ground for people and for equipment alike. Kit that comes along is used every day and written up honestly — conditions logged, hours of use, what failed and when — rather than turned into a testimonial. Your name travels every metre of the route on the sledges, the tent and the outer layers, and the story runs for years either side of it: fourteen months of training in Svalbard, Arctic Canada and Greenland, live tracking and dispatches from the ice, then a documentary, a photography book and talks for your teams and clients.
Naming rights, category exclusivity, your flag at the South Pole, a product test at −50 °C, a day with your people: every partnership is built round what you want from it. The expedition is set out on this site at Polar Dogs 2027, and the full proposal — route, training, the budget line by line and everything a partner gets — is in the sponsorship deck on polardogs.uk.
Track record
Solo to the South Pole, 2022–23: 700 miles from Hercules Inlet to 90°S in 57 days, 10 hours and 22 minutes. Greenland crossing, 2022: 560 km east to west. Earlier: the Cross Canada Expedition (south to north in winter), the Auyuittuq Traverse on Baffin Island, 3,600 km by bicycle from São Paulo to Santiago, a winter Land’s End to John o’ Groats, and summits above 6,000 m in the Bolivian Andes.
Press & talks
STV interview, August 2022 · Illustrated talk “Solo to the South Pole”, Carrbridge Hotel, February 2023. After Antarctica, Ben gave a series of talks about the expedition to primary-school pupils through the climate-change NGO Wicked Weather Watch. He gives illustrated talks about the expeditions — get in touch to book one.