Do you know a lot of other explorers?

Do you know a lot of other explorers?

Benedict Allen (Explorer) gives expert video advice on: Do you get nervous before an expedition?; How long does an expedition last?; How do you decide what expedition to do next? and more...

Yes there is. The Royal Geographical Society I suppose is the center of exploration. I'm not a great club person, I'm very bad... I'm not all that much of a loner either, but I tend to think of exploration as sort of work and it's too intense for me. I do love chatting to explorers. One of them rang today, Penn Hatter who is a fellow explorer. So I love chatting to them but I'm not tightly in their world. Partly because I'm more literary I think than most, and I'm sort of more interested in writers and so on. But I'm above all I suppose I'm slightly different. I don't, I'm not an expeditioner, I don't have the usual conventional backup and so on, the sponsorship and so on so I'm a little bit of an oddity maybe. But yes, the Travellers' Club as well, the Travellers... and yeah, I don't know, I tend to meet them on chat shows and giving motivational speeches or something like that. So I sort of bump into all of them...