Richard Brooke (explorer)
Richard "Brookes" Brooke (14 January 1927 – 29 June 2020) was an explorer and Royal Naval surveyor whose achievements included spending two winters on the British North‑East Greenland Expedition (1952–1954) and participating in Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (TAE) (1956–1958). During the TAE he became the first person to ascend a peak (Mount Huggins) in the Royal Society Range and walked the 1600 km between Mawson Glacier and Mulock Glacier.

He was also a licensed lay reader in the Church of England in Bath, Somerset.

He died on 29 June 2020 at the age of 93.

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1927 births
2020 deaths
British explorers
Anglican lay readers