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Henry Worsley (explorer)

Henry Worsley, English colonel and explorer (born 1960)

Life at a glance

Died: 2016 · January 24

Their story

Who they were

Lieutenant Colonel Alastair Edward Henry Worsley, was a British explorer and British Army officer. He was part of a 2009 expedition that retraced Ernest Shackleton's footsteps in the Antarctic.

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Henry Worsley (explorer) appears on our January 24 calendar for 2016 as a death entry.

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January 24 2016.

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