I spent six weeks in the Canadian Arctic on an Ice Base on the frozen Arctic Ocean at 78 degrees north (at the spot often referred to in polar races as ‘The North Pole’, though in fact it was the 1996 location of the magnetic North Pole).

In 2012 Alastair rowed across the Atlantic Ocean.

A story of a crossing of Iceland, unsupported, by foot and inflatable packraft.

The book Laurie Lee wrote – As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning – is my favourite travel book of all time.