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.

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

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

I love swimming, swimming's my passion and I hope I swim until the last day of my life, so I really, really do enjoy swimming, but swimming for me is simply a way of carrying a message.

I had a dream , okay, go do a swim off Antarctica, and I'd train in Gauteng and just dive into the sea off Antarctica... You've really got to do a simulated test as best you can in South Africa before you go off.

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

You shouldn't be able to do a swim at the North Pole, it should be frozen over.