Ben Saunders

I'm not particularly gifted; I'm not genetically freakish in any sense; I'm absolutely average.

Environmental scientists in Canada said it was impossible for me to get to the Pole in 2004... I said 'no,' it's still OK, and I can still get there, and I did.

My Antarctic expedition is just about doable, just feasible and that's what is exciting to me. If I knew it was possible, if I knew I could do it without too much bother, I wouldn't be interested.

The weather became so intensely cold that we sent for all the hunters who had remained out with captain Clarke's party, and they returned in the evening several of them frostbitten.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.