Things they said: Thor Heyerdahl
“Nature itself is like a hearth – we can revive the fire wherever there are embers.” – Thor Heyerdahl
exploration
Freya Stark: footprints in the sand
Bewitched by the Middle East, Freya Stark was a complex blend of fragility and wilfulness
William Speirs Bruce: Scotland’s Antarctic hero
Quietly determined and fiercely patriotic, in 1902 William Speirs Bruce carried the Saltire to the Antarctic on his ship, the Scotia
Things they said: Sir Edmund Hillary
“Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb towards it.” Sir Edmund Hillary
The Riddle of the Tsangpo Gorge – part two
A plant collector and a British spy… two intrepid explorers, lured by the mystery of an unexplored canyon and the ‘Lost Falls’ of the Brahmaputra
Jo Woolf 
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