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Sir Wally Herbert had mapped 73,000 square kilometres of previously unexplored land before he was 30. In 1969, he led the team that made the first undisputed attainment of the North Pole on foot and continued to Svalbard, becoming the first to cross the entire Arctic Ocean. Christian Amodeo joins him on his 70th birthday to learn more about his many achievements.(In Conversation)(Interview)
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Sir Ranulph Fiennes has called you "the greatest polar explorer of our time". What do you consider to be your greatest achievement?
I can't honestly answer that with the predictable "North Pole trip, of course", because I simply don't look at my career in that way. There was no one journey that was greater than the sum of the parts. I might even now argue that reaching 70 and discovering there is se much left to do is as gratifying as any of the ambitions that crowded my youth.
Which explorers do you feel stand out as the greatest?
There has never ...
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