Many people go into the wilderness to experience it, and if they experience it in comfort, there's very little in a literary sense for them to write about.

Adventure travel existed before I started, I just didn’t know it.

The explorer is the person who is lost.

For me, to find a place that doesn't have an organized tour going to it is becoming more and more difficult. A lot of times it involves danger of a political nature - places where the adventure-travel trips can't go because they can't get any liability insurance.

My problem with most athletic challenges is training. I'm lazy and find that workouts cut into my drinking time.

A constant ongoing joke among the people that I travel with is my absolutely hopeless sense of direction. I'm able to get lost a half an hour from camp. I don't know how I do this.

I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure.