On a harsh expedition, there's no space for anyone who does not intend to finish.

If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition's stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its sense of pleasure.

Through bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity.

To Succeed, you must reach for the stars, and let your imagination find its own path

Once in a very long time you come across a book that is far, far more than the ink, the glue and the paper, a book that seeps into your blood.

During the days I felt myself slipping into a kind of madness. Solitary confinement has an astonishing effect on the mind. The trip was to stay calm and keep myself occupied. I spent hours working out how to break free. But trying to escape would have been instant suicide.

I was becoming addicted to Bombay. There was squalor and poverty, but I had begun to realise my good fortune and would never again forget it.