A FUNERAL service is being held on Friday for the Ealing man who died crossing Greenland’s ice-sheet.
Philip Goodeve-Docker, 30, of Madeley Road, was on a 400-mile charity trek when his party was caught in a severe snowstorm on April 28.
The tent he was sharing with his two companions was blown away and they were cut off from help until the next morning.
It has emerged that Mr Goodeve-Docker was following in the footsteps of his grandfather, Patrick Pirie-Gordon who had a glacier, called the Gordon Glacier, named after him.
In a tribute written on his Facebook page his brother Mark, said: “Phil stopped to smell the roses and was overcome with one facet of his (grandfather's) life - which was the Arctic exploration.
He added it was 'his salute to his Grandfather for his great works'.
The service will be held today (Friday) at St Mary The Less Church in Chilbolton, Hampshire. Mr Goodeve-Docker had been raising funds for the Queen's Nursing Institute.
A message on his fundraising page reads: “We will always miss him and forever hold him in our hearts. Philip was someone who inspired others around him to be better, who made rotten jokes and to enjoy the smaller and simpler things in life. He died doing something that he loved, for a cause that he loved, and for a person that he admired.”
Donations can still be made at www.justgiving.com/greenland-crossing-2013
