Cunard’s 2023 Queen Elizabeth’s Alaska season will feature, Alaska Native Voices again in 2023 with a Cultural Heritage Guide, The National Park Rangers for all visits to Glacier Bay plus a Naturalist on every sailing. The sailings that the celebrity guest speakers will feature on are all sailing on Alaska round-trips from Vancouver including exciting ports of call at places such as Ketchikan, Juneau, Hubbard Glacier, Glacier Bay, Skagway, Sitka, Icy Strait Point and more!

The following guest speakers will be on board on the following sailings:

Bear Grylls

8^th June 2023- Q320

Bear Grylls will be featured on Queen Elizabeth, for her Alaskan cruise from Vancouver on the 8th of June 2023. He is probably the most recognisable face of adventure on the planet. The former 21 SAS soldier was one of the youngest ever climbers of Mt Everest, despite breaking his back in a free-fall accident only months earlier. Bear Grylls is a family man, a No. 1 bestselling author who has sold over 20 million books, the Honorary Colonel to the British Royal Marine Commandos and the first-ever Chief Ambassador to 55 million young Scouts worldwide.

Kenton Cool

20^th June 2023- Q321
30^th June 2023- Q322

You can catch Kenton Cool on Queen Elizabeth on the 20th of June & 30th of June 2023. Kenton Cool is an English mountaineer and mountain guide. He is one of Britain’s leading alpine and high-altitude climbers and has summited Mount Everest fifteen times, including leading Sir Ranulph Fiennes’ 2008 and 2009 Expeditions and Ben Fogle’s 2019 Expedition. 

Pen Hadlow

7^th July 2023- Q323

You will find Pen Hadlow on the Alaskan sailing onboard Queen Elizabeth on the 7th of July 2023 for 10 nights. Explorer and Adventurer Pen Hadow was catapulted to international fame when he became the first and only person to complete one of the last great polar challenges – solo, without re-supply, from Canada to the North Pole. It took him three attempts over 15 years to achieve this single feat at the ‘bleeding edge of exploration’. Pen has a strong connection with Alaska in his adventures, including attempting to sail to the North Pole from Nome, Alaska.

Ann Daniels

17^th July 2023- Q324

Ann Daniels is one of Britain’s leading Polar explorers. In 2002 Ann became a world record holder when she reached the North Pole despite unbelievable arctic conditions and became the first woman in history to ski to the North and South Poles as part of an all-women team. This journey has never been repeated.

Felicity Aston

27^th July 2023- Q325

Felicity Aston MBE is a Polar Scientist turned Explorer. In 2012 she became the first woman to ski alone across the Antarctic, a 1744km/1084m journey that took her 59-days and entered her in the Guinness Book of World Records. She has also created and led record-making ski expeditions to both the North and South Geographic Poles with international teams of pioneering women, skied frozen rivers and lakes in Siberia, driven 36,000km to the Pole of Cold (the coldest inhabited place on Earth), flown across the United States in an airship and run the Marathon Des Sables footrace in the Sahara.

Mensun Bound

7^th August 2023- Q326

Known as the ‘Indiana Jones of the Deep’, Mensun Bound has conducted wreck surveys and excavations worldwide for 40 years. During that time he excavated one of the oldest known shipwrecks (600 BC). In 2019 Bound stunned the world with his discovery of Admiral von Spee’s flagship, Scharnhorst which had been lost in battle during World War One.