Ben Saunders Quotes & Sayings

I've diced with death the most cycling around London. Black cabs are far more dangerous than polar bears. — Ben Saunders

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. — Ben Saunders

Expeditions are escapism. The stuff that we're normally concerned about just doesn't matter out there. Tax returns, gas bill, none of it. Life becomes very simple, it's about moving in a certain direction - north if you're going north - staying warm and not getting eaten. That's it. — Ben Saunders

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. — Ben Saunders

The closer I got to my finish line, that rubbley (ph) rocky coast of Ross Island, the more I started to realize that the biggest lesson that this very long, very-hard walk might be teaching me is that happiness is not a finish line and that if we can't feel content on our journeys amidst the mess and the striving that we all inhabit - the open loops, the half-finished to-do lists, the could-do-better-next-times - then we might never feel it. — Ben Saunders

When I'm skiing, I listen to electronic music. It's repetitive and let's me get into a groove and crank out the miles. — Ben Saunders

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

I don't think of myself as an explorer but as an athlete. — Ben Saunders

What's the nastiest injury I've sustained? Just a frostbitten toe ... but thankfully it's still intact. — Ben Saunders