Wearelookingsideways.com Website Review

Post-Spectre expedition homage to Nansen. Photo: Leo > “THE PRICE OF BEING AMBITIOUS IS THAT YOU’RE NEVER SATISFIED”. New favourite guest alert! I very much enjoyed this serendipitous conversation with climber, adventurer and explorer Leo Houlding Antarctica, attempt to climb Spectre, a peak de*p in the Transantarctic Range; before kiting back across the continent to get This hugely ambitious project is an example of what Leo calls ‘21st century exploration’ marrying the scale and ambition of traditional exploration with a modern action sports sensibility. Leo on the throne. Spectre the imposing middle spire. It’s a completely innovative approach that raises some rather interesting ethical questions about the whole business of polar exploration and the very notion of adventure itself in the modern era, something we Leo with Marc and Jean. We also explored one of the great over-arching themes of the Looking Sideways podcast: the relativity of the danger they voluntarily place themselves in, amid the wider arc of encroaching maturity. Leo is a brilliant conversationalist, transparent and honest, and as all great conversations do this one took on a life of its own as we explored his recent adventures, inner motivations and utterly unique viewpoint on the current state of adventure. Listen to this section - Leo on the current state of polar exploration. Email check failed, please try again Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.