Two elderly adventurers win £80,000 court fight over abandoned trip through Arctic Ocean
TWO elderly adventurers have won an £80,000 court fight over an abandoned trip of a lifetime through the Arctic Ocean.
Nicholas and Rosemary Sherman were devastated when their Northwest Passage cruise was diverted as a cold snap meant sea ice blocked the way.
Now, they have secured the backing of Court of Appeal judges in their fight for a £20,000 refund and £60,000-plus in legal costs.
Mr Sherman insisted: “Our purpose is not the money, it is to stop it happening again.”
The ex-IT industry director, 76, and his wife, 75, who worked for a GP, booked the 2018 trip through Canada’s Northwest Passage in part as an inlet is named after one of Mr Sherman’s ancestors.
The cruise aimed to trace the doomed 1845 expedition of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, which ended with all 129 crew dead.
But colder than usual weather meant the cruise spent most of its time off Greenland.
The Shermans, of Sixpenny Handley, Dorset, lost a case against organiser Reader Offers and were told to pay £60,000 costs.
That was overturned by a High Court judge and last week the Court of Appeal too.