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No one will pay you for planning an expedition at first: you have to work in pubs at weekends so you can pay the gas bills. I joined the Territorial Army, which paid me when I turned up to drill nights, and so did my wife.

It's not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.

We've had a lot of agencies try and sabotage our tour.

I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.

For me, to find a place that doesn't have an organized tour going to it is becoming more and more difficult. A lot of times it involves danger of a political nature - places where the adventure-travel trips can't go because they can't get any liability insurance.

Raising funds for my fourth expedition proved to be very difficult.

Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.

I can make dopey decisions for which I have to pay. If I take some little old lady's superannuation money, I would be mortified if things didn't go to plan.

The tourist board have put a bounty on me head, but they like the biz from tourists.