Tom Fremantle
Tom Fremantle
Tom started out as a reporter on the Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard writing about golden weddings and prize-winning sheep before branching out to Hong Kong as a journalist for Eastern Express. In 1996 he rode a bicycle 12,500 miles between England and Australia, the subject of his first book (Johnny Ginger’s Last Ride, 2000). He followed this by walking between Mexico and New York with a mule (The Moonshine Mule, 2003) and paddling down the river Niger in West Africa (The Road to Timbuktu, 2005). His journeys haveraised over £100,000 for a variety of charities and he is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
More recently he worked for Fundacion Comunitaria de la Frontera Norte in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, an NGO on the Tex-Mex border and,last year, to spread awareness about Mexico’s drug war, he completed a 1,000 mile fundraising walk from Juarez to Tijuana, accompanied by a street dog called Pancho. Tom is Green Shoots’ representative in Delhi, where he will cooperate with Touch India Trust in order to run a social entreprise and fund Shiksha Rath, an academy for slum kids.