Have you ever regretted any expedition you have been on?

Have you ever regretted any expedition you have been on?

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I haven't really regretted my expeditions, any of them...no, I think there is always something I've learned. Even ones that haven't gone all that smoothly. I went to Sumatra years ago to try and track down an orange pendek, which is a little ape man that was meant to live in the forest there and was largely mythical and local people believed in it so I thought let's try and investigate. I never got to the bottom of that. I still don't know whether this thing is real or not and scientists have claimed they've found footprints of it and it may still exist out there. But I never got to the bottom and I felt maybe I should have persevered and come up with something more. I wrote a book called "Hunting the Gugu" because this thing was called the Gugu. I thought it was slightly unfinished work because I hadn't come to a conclusion about it. But it wasn't...no, it wasn't something I really regretted, I just felt perhaps I could've got further, could've hung on in there somehow and come back with more than I had.