"The nights were a nightmare, something akin to sitting in the pitch black on a broken rowing machine with buckets of salt water being thrown in your face every ten minutes" - James Adair, Indian Ocean Rower.
We speak with a man who left his desk job in London to pursue his dream adventure by rowing from Australia to Mauritius.
"One of the most harrowing experiences was having monkeys go crazy outside my tent one afternoon. 'Must be a leopard out there', I thought, as the monkeys fell silent. They’d gone quiet because they couldn’t see the cat anymore. Instead it was in the tent with me. That makes you twitch."
We employed some of our own 'tracking' skills and caught up with the safari industry's well-loved and respected Peter Allison.
"Solo 1,000-mile pedal-powered kayak trip across Scandinavia"
Dave Cornthwaite is a British adventurer, author and motivational speaker. He is the founder of the exciting potential-fulfilling brand “SayYesMore” and is now well on his way to completing something quite remarkable – Expedition1000.