Andrew Croft
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Colonel Noel Andrew Croft DSO OBE Polar Medal, (November 30, 1906 — June 26, 1998), was a member of the Special Operations Executive in the Second World War and apparently one of the inspirations for James Bond; an explorer, holding the longest self-sustaining journey in the Guinness Book of Records for more than 60 years (across Greenland), and Commandant of the Cadet Corps of the Metropolitan Police Service. He also stepped down with his leader, Eric Shipton, from the 1953 Everest Expedition. The new team included Sir Edmund Percival Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, who became the first to climb the mountain, that very year.
