Dad makes 8,000-mile trip twice after clicking wrong penguin in memory of late daughter

A man whose daughter a doctor died of cancer travelled a distance of 8000 miles to take photographs of penguins in her memory He then made the international trip for a second time when he released he took pictures of the wrong onesAccording to a report in wwwmirrorcouk Roger Clark 71 wanted to click the same bird that was on a postcard sent to him by his daughter Lisa when she was holidaying in Australia However when he returned from South Georgia and the Falklands he compared his photos with the postcard He then realised that the bird on the card was an Emperor Penguin not a King Penguin as hed originally thoughtThe report added that Clark ignoring medical advice went back and made another 10000mile journey to Antarctica The determined Clark finally found and photographed the beautiful penguins caring for their chicks He rang his wife to share the emotional moment before writing his daughters name in the snowThe mirrorcouk report further stated that Lisa left her mother Lynette pound20000 in her will after her parents promised they would do the travelling she was unable to finish before she died In her last days Lisa who died of ovarian cancer in October 2012 told them that not travelling even more was her only regret in lifeClark opening up to mirrorcouk said Lisa did a lot of travelling she was involved in a charity project in Nicaragua she delivered a baby for the first time which was then named after her in Tonga and she loved the MaldivesIt was after Lisa had her daughter Lucy who is now six that she began to feel ill She was working at Glastonbury Festival as a clinic lead with Festival Medical Services in 2011 and we were there too I remember watching Lisas favourite band Coldplay and Lisa was writhing in pain but at the time she thought it was a stomach bug In July she went for a scan at hospital and things were so bad that three days later she was on an operating table having the cancer removed from her ovariesLisa passed away 15months after she was diagnosed Clark further told mirrorcouk When Lisa was upset and dying in the hospice she had regrets about some of the travelling she hadnt completed and I vowed I would do some of that for her After her passing I thought long and hard and decided I was well and fit so should do my greatest trip before I was unable to travel I wondered what would be the ultimate thing for me to photograph to honour her memory and I thought about penguinsrdquoFor full story click here