In February 2014, the team received significant, and morale boosting news- an offer of significant support in the form of the Neville Shulman Exploration Award.

 

Mounting a major expedition at the end of the largest global recession since the 1930s brought some obvious difficulties. Funding was extremely difficult to come by, and Patrick and Richard worked hard over the past two years to provide a sizeable chunk of the expedition budget. Nothing brought the pair more relief than the news received in February, from the Neville Shulman Award.

 

Neville Shulman CBE (Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, Fellow of the Explorers Club) himself a New Guinea explorer, very kindly awarded PNG Expedition with the Neville Shulman Exploration Award- with the following aims:

 

1. To financially secure expedition plans and cover other contingencies, greatly increasing the project's chances of success.

2. ​To support and further the collation of Geographical and Sociological data occurring within PNG.

 

OPPOSITE: Neville Shulman climbing Carstensz Pyramid in Western Papua, New Guinea, the highest mountain in Australasia.