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

As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end.

In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had been in India long enough.

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

Explorers like to pretend that they are a select breed of people with iron nerve and an ability to endure terrible hardship.

The forest did not tolerate frailty of body or mind. Show your weakness, and it would consume you without hesitation.

Buy a house in a foreign country and, it seems, that anything which can go wrong usually does.