I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills.

There's no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing

Whenever feasible, pick your team on character, not skill. You can teach skills; you can't teach character.

There is no bad weather, only inappropriate clothing.

People who go to the polar regions are statistically less likely to die than salesmen who drive on motorways in England.

The ultimate starting point for planning any adventure or expeditionby far and away the greatest book on earth

While I was serving, I worked as an adventure training officer, teaching soldiers how to ski, canoe and climb.

Rivalry is one of the factors pushing me. While my back was turned, the Norwegians managed to achieve the first Arctic crossing in winter. I didn't want the same to happen in the Antarctic.

As a rule, anything that is pretty you avoid when on an expedition in the polar extremes. Normally anything other than white means a hazard such as a crevasse.

I am a descendent of a whole bunch of Black folk who couldn't be broken.

There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.

I received many years of good advice from my father - how to live, how to play, how to be a gentleman.

The Russian empire under czars and commissars has been hard to deal with for other countries.

The belief in a Divine education, open to each man and to all men, takes up into itself all that is true in the end proposed by culture, supplements, and perfects it.

Admit your mistakes but don't cry over them. Correct them and go forward.

I can see being kind to people, but I don't think giving them money solves the problem. I think it makes the problem worse and it prolongs the ultimate, inevitable end anyway.

Whereas the work is understood to be traceable to a source (through a process of derivation or "filiation"), the Text is without a source - the "author" a mere "guest" at the reading of the Text.

When I make fried chicken I always serve masses and masses of fresh mangos. It's a great combination.

Culture is always about politics in the end.