Britain has bred many great explorers, but they seem to get so little coverage compared to soccer and rugby players.

I got bored and then joined the British SAS. It was five very exciting years of my life, and then I'd always had this passion for swimming, so started swimming around the world, in some of the most exotic and distant and dangerous locations.

I've seen some glaciers in the world which have been, which are just turquoise blue blue glaciers up in the Arctic. It's tragic to think that because of climate change, because of man's actions, they're melting away.

Mount Everest is a very spiritual place, it's a beautiful mountain.

We have to appreciate that we are part of nature, we must work with nature; the environment is our lifeline.

Britain has bred many great explorers, but they seem to get so little coverage compared to soccer and rugby players.

The businessmen of the world who are not taking environmental matters seriously are just wasting money, aside from damaging the environment it's wasting money and in this economic climate you just can't afford to do that.