Packshaw participated in the
1989–1990 Whitbread Round the World Race, representing Great Britain. In 2012, the centenary of
Captain Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova Expedition, he led a team including three wounded veterans to the
South Pole to raise money for Walking with the Wounded. In 2014, led an expedition across the coast of Nigeria from Cameroon to Benin via jet ski. That same year, Packshaw co-ordinated and led an expedition including two wounded veterans that followed the route of
Sir Earnest Shackleton voyage of the James Caird from
Antarctica to
South Georgia to raise money for the
Defence and National Rehabilitation Centre. In 2015, he led a team of businessmen to the North Pole, raising more than £400,000 for
The Prince's Trust, and in 2017, he led a team to the
South Pole that raised more than £685,000 for The Prince's Trust and the
Roundhouse Trust. They started from
Novolazarevskaya Station in Queen Maud Land and travelled through the interior 1,400 miles to the
Geographic South Pole. With teammate Dr Jamie Facer-Childs the pair kite skied and man-hauled, unsupported across the ice. The team carried out research on climate change and also on human physiology and psychology working in collaboration with
NASA,
ESA and
Stanford University. ==Honours and recognitions==