Going to the Arctic was immense for me.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
To get the feel of the polar night, I went back to Spitsbergen in winter. I went snowshoeing in the dark and experimented with headlamps and climbed a glacier in driving snow.
This was one of the places people told me to go, it was one the big trips that you should see: Alaska.
I went to Alaska as a young man just looking for adventure. And like so many of us in the '70s, we found it.
The most climate friendly trip we are ever going to take is the trip we never had to take because we were close to what we wanted.
I've been to the Titanic in a yellow submarine and the North Pole in a Russian nuclear ice breaker.
I went to Antarctica on a science research boat just to sort of clear my head.
Traveling to Russia and Germany and being able to see the world at a young age was really cool for me, and I really liked that.
A journey into space is the greatest adventure I can imagine.
The fact that the Arctic, more than any other populated region of the world, requires the collaboration of so many disciplines and points of view to be understood at all, is a benefit rather than a burden.
I've always walked and climbed; spent a lot of time in the arctic and places.