Meet the Team

The Fire and Ice Team are four British veterans, each of whom is famous in their own right:

Jason 'Foxy' Fox

Jason Fox, often referred to by his nickname 'Foxy', is a television personality, adventurer and a former UK Special Forces solder and Royal Marine Commando who dedicated 20 years to the British Forces. 

He is best known as the longest serving directing staff on the popular Channel 4 television series 'SAS: Who Dares Wins', and the presenter of the investigative documentary series 'Meet the Drug Lords: Inside the Real Narcos'.

Since leaving the military, Foxy has completed a number of huge challenges including trekking to North Pole and kayaking Yukon river. 

Foxy is an advocate for mental health and PTSD in the veteran community.

Aldo Kane

Also Kane is a well-known TV adventurer, author, World Record holder, and veteran.  He joined the Royal Marine Commandos at the age of 16, and became one of the youngest Snipers in the UK Armed Forces.  He spent 10 years operating around the globe in all environments, including the war in the Middle East.

Since leaving the forces, he has accumulated over 20 years' experience working in some of the most extreme, remote and inhospitable places on the planet.  If you have watched any adventure TV in the last ten years then you have probably seen his work, either behind or in front of the camera. 

With almost 100 countries visited under his belt, there is no environment where he cannot operate.  

Brian Wood MC

Brian served for 17 years in the British Army with the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment. During his service in Iraq, he led the first bayonet charge in 25 years. For his gallantry in leading this charge, in the Battle of Danny Boy, and taking control of the situation during the ambush of his unit, he was awarded the Military Cross. This action was immortalised in Brian's book 'Double Crossed', and the BBC mini-series 'Danny Boy'.

Since leaving the Army, Brian has raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for military charities by running multiple back-to-back marathons and, most recently, the Marathon des Sables - a 257km marathon through the Sahara Desert.

Project Fire & Ice will be his biggest challenge to date and a good way of marking 20 years since his service in Iraq.

Karl Hinett

Karl joined the Staffordshire Regiment in 2003 and deployed on Op Telic 6 to Basra City in 2005 at the age of 18.  Towards the end of this tour he was deployed to what became the Al Jameat Riots, where his Warrior vehicle was hit by multiple petrol bombs.

Karl sustained 37% burns to his face, hands, arms, legs and stomach.  In places the skin was almost burnt to the bone.  It took five years of surgery to rebuild Karl, having had 16 operations and clocking up over 100 hours on the operating table.  But during this time Karl found motivation, and wanted to challenge life - to use the past as experience and manage change in a positive way.

Karl has now run hundreds of marathons and ultramarathons across the world, as well as summitting Mt. Manaslu in Nepal, and attempting Mt. Everest.

Project Fire and Ice will be Karl's way of marking 20 years since that fateful day in Basra.