Dirty underwear, heroic struggle and white men with icicles in their beards…

The opinion of legendary explorer Mikael Strandberg, and cautionary words for me!

“Our view of Adventure and Expeditions must be renewed. Firstly, there has to be an interesting story. The times are gone when a spectator finds it interesting to listen to the hackneyed theme of ”anything is possible”; a story centered around dirty underwear, heroic struggle and white men with icicles in their beards who have managed to reach the North Pole, using a shopping cart and an oar as their only means of transport” – Mikael Strandberg

Read the rest of his piece here.

DON’T MISS A THING – FREE MONTHLY UPDATE BY EMAIL:

Have you read Alastair’s books? Also available for Kindle, iPad and children.

If you liked this post you might enjoy these too:

1. We were born too late to be explorers. To be real explorers. To be one of the hard men.
2. A new generation of travel writers
3. If I were able to live my life anew…
4. Hitchhiking to Malaysia