What is the difference between an explorer and adventurer?

What is the difference between an explorer and adventurer?

Benedict Allen (Explorer) gives expert video advice on: What is the difference between an explorer and adventurer?; Do you need qualifications to become an explorer?; How do you raise money to pay for your expedition? and more...

Well there are all sorts of discussions about what an explorer is. For me I think it is something different and what people imagine. We come to think of people planting flags, people trekking through the polar wastes as explorers. To me, generally these people are athletes. Often very great athletes, but I think there is very rarely discovery. I think discovery is one of the key aspects of exploration. Second aspect is the reporting back. You have got to push that barrier of knowledge and report with that information back to the people who sort of sponsor you, who send you out, who read your books. It is about that process of finding out something new and reporting back. I am not interested really in those people walking however heroically, to the North Pole or the South Pole because that is like a racetrack almost. People are just competing and so on. To me that is not exploration. These are adventurers. I call myself an explorer not because I am a scientist. Because I am not. Although I have done a degree in science. I call myself an explorer because I am going to places that people have misunderstood or they are very unfamiliar to people for some reason and to experts. I am telling the story or reworking themes about that place and writing them down in an account that can be shared.