Greg Mortimer

What ship are you on right now, Rene?

I'm on the Greg Mortimer with Aurora Expeditions.

Right on.

That's the first expo to have been introduced into the fleet and then many more came after it.

Yeah.

So we were founded by Greg Mortimer in 1991 and Greg was the first Australian to climb Mount Everest and so he went to Antarctica exploring and climbing and fell in love with it and thought I've got to come back and start this business up and so we were a small expedition company for most of that 35 years Greg sold the business in 2008, and the new owners decided to invest, and so now we have three brand new purpose-built ships.

One of which is called the Greg Mortimer,

right? Our original is called Greg Mortimer, yes.

And two others, so you have three ships, and what are the destinations that you explore?

So we started out polar, Antarctica and Arctic, but now we go to all seven continents.

So it will just be for six months of the year, the northern hemisphere season.

So it will start in 27.

They've introduced a new 10-night peak season circumnavigation of Iceland.

In Alaska, their vessel, the Greg Mortimer, will operate a new round-trip route from Vancouver.

Okay.

Meanwhile, the National Geographic Quest and National Geographic Venture will execute longer regional itineraries, featuring onboard researchers from the Alaska Whale Foundation.