Personnel Today

Some people will go to any lengths to keep up to date with the latest HR news, but few have been as far north as Michael McGrath, who took his copy of Personnel Today to the North Pole last month.

He is currently working on a Business Development assignment for Executive Coaching firm Performance Unlimited. He undertook his expedition to the North Pole to raise funds for Muscular Dystrophy (MD).

McGrath has Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy, which has severely reduced his ability to walk even short distances. He conquered the pole at 01.23am on Saturday 20th April 2002. The air temperature was a freezing minus 42 degrees below zero

McGrath said, "Walking the last 150 metres and then standing 'on top of the world' in such a hostile, extremely cold, raw, yet stunningly beautiful environment is a memory that will be with me forever."

The funds raised from The Chris Cope North Pole Expedition will provide much needed improved computer equipment to monitor the progression of people with Muscular Dystrophy and measure the success of new treatments in trials across the 13 major muscle centres in the United Kingdom