 He had been appearing on "Skavlan".The 1,500 kilometre journey lasted around 15 hours, and Cleese passed through Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium during his journey.Eighty-three-year-old naturalist and television presenter Sir David Attenborough and his crew, who had reached the North Pole to film the upcoming BBC nature series "The Frozen Planet", were stranded in the Norwegian Arctic territory of Svalbard when the volcanic ash forced air space closure.