Have frightening situations ever put you off doing another expedition?

Have frightening situations ever put you off doing another expedition?

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...

No. I suppose I have been put off in part. I've had to take stock, and I do know I've done foolish things. My very last big expedition, when I went across the Bering Strait with a dog team, I lost the dogs somewhere out there in the Bering Straits. It was pack ice -- you have to imagine this maze of ice -- pack ice crunched together in great blocks and blocks. I lost my dogs. And it was okay in the end, but I realized I'd sort of done a naughty thing. I had broken the rules. I was just so determined not to go home without having pushed myself as far as I could go personally, so I just went for it. And I do have this impulsiveness in my psyche that I have to control, but it's also what powers me sometimes, this willfulness that I have. And I thought to myself that I wouldn't do this again. And I certainly wouldn't do my first expeditions again, when I crossed the Amazon basin, and so on. I was very lucky to have got away with it. I don't have that belief in my luck that I had as a young man.