Paul Hameister

Paul is a former lawyer and investment banker who has been actively involved in property development since 1997. His development business, Hamton has current and completed residential projects of over $4.5bn in the last 19 years. Paul is the first Australian to have climbed the Seven Summits (the highest peak on every continent on Earth, including Everest in 2011) and complete the Polar Hat-Trick (skiing to the North Pole, the 550km Greenland Crossing and South Pole) all unsupported and unassisted, including being a member of the first all-Australian team to establish a new route from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole (with his daughter). He has been a member of four expeditions sponsored by the Australian Geographic Society, including a circa 1,000km expedition through unexplored Amazon jungle in the mountainous Sierra del Divisor region. In Peru with Matses tribe support (with his son). In Nov 22, Paul and his two children completed a 400km crossing of the Sinai on food with Bedouin tribe support. Some of these expeditions have been captured in TV documentaries aired on Discovery and National Geographic Channels globally. He is involved with a number of not-for-profits, including as Founder of Nature Based Cities. Paul received an Order of Australia Medal in the 2019 Queen’s Birthday Honours to service to exploration and to business.

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