MBE

Mark Charles Evans MBE.

Mark has been the leader on all the expeditions I've done both in the Arctic and in The Middle East in the past 15 years or so. I met him in Saudi Arabia in the mid 1990s. He has done an enormous amount of hard work for humanity, especially youth.
Mark was the founder of Connecting Cultures - www.connectingcultures.co.uk
He also established Outward Bound Oman www.outwardboundoman.com in 2009 and is now the Director of that.
Mark and his wife, Madeleine, live in Muscat, Oman.
On 28 June 2011, Mark was invested with his MBE by the Queen at Buckingham Palace.
Well done Mark - congratulations. You deserve it for all your hard grafting.
I was planning to darken the door of his favourite pub just around the corner from the Royal Geographic Society in London and surprise him with a pint to celebrate the occasion. Alas other events took over.
Mark is a great friend and expedition companion.