In Nobody Will Shoot You If You Make Them Laugh: One Man's Journey
Through The Mountains And Valleys of Life, the businessman and
adventurer Simon Murray tells his extraordinary life story. From an
orphanage in Leicester through the rigours and brutality of the
English public school system in the 1950s, to a five-year spell in
French Foreign Legion, his early life was recounted in his
million-selling book Legionnaire. Since 1965 he has been one of the
most successful businessmen operating out of Hong Kong. Starting as
a sales manager for Jardine Matheson he worked his way up to
running Hutchison Whampoa. He has also been actively involved with
the Hong Kong Electricity Company, Deutsche Bank Asia Pacific,
Glencore and Huawei among others. In-between he founded Orange and
other mobile telephone operators across Asia and Africa. He has
been off the path many times: climbed in the Atlas Mountains;
trekked up to Everest and Annapurna; climbed Kilimanjaro and
abseiled down the Shard in London. He is the oldest man to walk
unsupported to the South Pole. He has run the Marathon des Sables,
250 kilometres across the Moroccan desert when he was 60 years old,
and follows his motto 'Do not follow where the path may lead, but
go instead where there is no path and leave a trail' somewhat
earnestly. He was awarded the CBE from the Queen and been decorated
with the Order of Merit and the Legion d'Honneur in France. He
claims his greatest success is his marriage of 54 years to Jennifer
and the raising of three children and his six grandchildren.
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