Ffeinnes - admirable or daft?

Some other poor souls will have to risk their lives to rescue him if he comes a cropper!

Seems he has pulled out because of frostbite, which he has suffered before, I think. You'd think he would realise by now, with all his experience, that anyone who works with bare hands in temperatures thirty degrees below zero will have a problem or two

Seems I'm being unkind. When something like this happens, it's called an "equipment failure", according to DH, because you can only do the kind of repair that was necessary with your bare hands.

Beaten by indifferent Nature, then.

There's surely a happy medium between pigging out in front of the TV and walking across Antarctica. If he wasn't getting all the media attention, would he do it? I'm fed up with hearing about people engaging in dangerous and pointless activities, and often putting others at risk when things go wrong. If they want to do something challenging, do something useful.

He is just following his dreams. Do dreams have to stop just because one reaches a certain age? Mads