You’re often described as an explorer. Is there anything left to explore?
I wouldn’t describe myself as an explorer. My passport has always said “travel writer”. People don’t explore nowadays at all. Occasionally there are pioneers – scientists who might go to a Brazilian jungle to extract new medicines from plants out there, or specialist glaciologists. In terms of the expeditions I’ve been on, we probably did the last true mapping exploration in 1979 when we charted 900 miles of untrodden Antarctica along the Greenwich Meridian.
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