What's the worst thing about being an explorer?
Well see there are terrible moments. Of course, there are the dramatic bits I have been shot at. I have been attacked by gold miners. I had to eat my dog to survive on my first expedition all these things that have happened but those aren't really.. These are great stories they're not the things that stick in my mind. The terrible thing is I suppose the loneliness and I don't mean when I'm alone crossing the Gobi desert with three or walking up the Sucobie coast with another three camels. It's not that it's the moment at the beginning of an expedition perhaps when you're planning I remember being in Ulaanbaatar the capital of Mongolia and I didn't speak Mongolian and I was just struggling by myself in a rented flat and I didn't know anyone. Nothing was coming together BBC were expecting me to pull of a film by myself no camera crew. How was ever going to pull this together? And I just felt like the world wasn't against me but it wasn't sympathetic to me and I thought what's the point in the is it's just a silly expedition no one‘s really interested in. So that loneliness and of course back here it can seem quiet lonely a lot of my time I am just alone I'm writing books about my stories. I think it's that the solitude with the loneliness it's not actually the solitude it's simply that loneliness because you can be actually be amongst a great crowd and feel the loneliest of all as I was in the capital of Mongolia or here in London.
