What's the worst place you have been to?

What's the worst place you have been to?

For me, physically, the Arctic is the worst, up in Siberia. I found it terrible. It was this terrible winter, was it in living memory. It was minus thirty, it was minus fifty of occasion, that sort of thing. I found that a total nightmare. I'm no good in the cold. I'm almost two meters tall - six foot four - and so I think being long and thin, I'm just the wrong shape. I'm better off walking through some desert, almost like a Masai or Dinka, who are my sort of height. So I think I'm the wrong shape. Again, that expedition was wonderful in the end, because that dog team that I set out to try and train did actually come round to my point of view. They did actually start working with me and trusting me. And so out of that frightfulness came a sort of wonderful thing. So looking back, sometimes the worst places turn out to be the best. I'm sure you've all had this: you know how bad experiences can be, but you feel this utter sense of relief when it's done, and you feel that much more excited about the world because you've got through it somehow.