Alastair Humphreys Quotations

I was at university and it was pretty easy, trundling along towards getting a job after that, I just wanted to do something a bit more difficult and challenging.

I didn't want to get a job. I wanted to see all these places and all that obvious stuff, but mostly it was just to do something harder than I'd done before.

See the opportunities for adventures, not the constraints that get in the way.

Life is too brief and too rich to tiptoe through half-heartedly, rather than galloping at it with whooping excitement and ambition.

Adventure is just about doing something you’ve never done— doing it with enthusiasm and curiosity: doing something difficult with passion.

Sometimes all you need is to climb a simple hill, to spend time staring at an empty horizon, to jump into a cold river or sleep under the stars, or perhaps share a whisky at a small country inn in order to remind yourself what matters most to you in life.

You do not need to fly to the other side of the planet to find wilderness and beauty.

It's such an in-your-face country. Probably the best individual moment was getting to Cape Town, getting to the end of Africa, because I really -- even until Kenya -- I didn't think I would get through.

The first year I found really quite lonely and quite hard. It was awful. I was in this horrible hotel crying my eyes out for about two days.