services with regard to the initiation and leading of the Division on Cryospheric Sciences and to the founding of the journal The Cryosphere". In 2015 he was given a Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award. In 2015 he was elected as the president of the European Geosciences Union, serving for four years as president-elect and president. In 2019 he was made a fellow of the American Geophysical Union. In December 2020, the Antarctic Place-names Committee named a glacier in the Antarctic Peninsula after Bamber for his contribution to Antarctic research. Personal life Bamber is a keen mountaineer, climber and long distance runner. In 1990 he climbed the 1938 route on the North Face of the Eiger with Wil Hurford. He won his first major running race in 1991 at the Woodley 10 mile road race in a time of 54 minutes. A year later in 1992, while climbing in the Indian Himalaya, close to the Pakistan border, he was hit by a rockfall and sustained life-threatening injuries to his left leg. It took six days to get him off the mountain, and he contracted gangrene and frostbite. He spent almost four years on crutches before being able to take a few steps unaided. His leg was 2 cm shorter and his ankle fused. Ten years after his climbing accident, two days before his 40th birthday, he ran and won a half marathon in Somerset. Since then he has competed in races over various distances, winning a number outright and in his age category, at distances of 5 to 50 miles. In 2018, he ran the Everest marathon, the highest in the world, placing as 2nd international runner. In the next year, he teamed up with the first international runner from the Everest marathon to compete in the eight-day TransAlpineRun, covering 280 km and a 16,500 m ascent, starting in Germany and finishing in Italy. His running partner retired after fifth stage, but Bamber continued and completed the course in a time of 41 hours 57 minutes. In 2015, a team of three Swiss climbers made the first ascent of the mountain Tupendeo, which Bamber had attempted 23 years earlier. They made a movie about their ascent and Bamber's ordeal that was premiered at the Kendal Mountain Festival in 2016 and was subsequently shown at other outdoor film festivals across Europe. It was also aired on German and Swiss television. References Year