The World Nomads team wanted to interview me for their podcast, and they asked me about Albania, which I travelled to in search of a British World War Two secret mission.
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Epic journeys; new horizons; themes of courage and endurance; and connecting with a different reality or culture. Words to live by.
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Like most young boys in the 1980s, I was fascinated by two things: dinosaurs and volcanoes. The vast power of a volcano, spilling forth red lava after a dramatic explosion, inspired excitement and fear.
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That was exactly the response I had hoped for. I was at the offices of the Telegraph newspaper, and I had just shown Ben Ross, the travel editor, and Greg Dickinson, the social content editor, my route along the New Iron Curtain.
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The journey gave me enormous respect for members of the Special Forces and underlined once again the horror of war.
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In June/July 2014, I joined Levison Wood for the Sudan leg of his Walking The Nile expedition. Due to security restrictions, we had to cross the Bayuda Desert at the edge of the Sahara. I wrote the article up for Etihad Inflight Magazine, and you can read it here.
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But how does one film one’s adventures in the first place? Camera work is a huge field, with masses of terminology and kit to get your head around, let alone thinking about filming a story, constructing a sequence or planning shots. Most adventurers can barely afford their own expeditions, so paying for a camera-man is out of the question. How, then, does a budding explorer-presenter take his first step into the world of media?
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But as much as conditioning, I've been learning how to stop things going wrong in the first place. And central to this, is looking after my feet.
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Given the limited surroundings, I'm walking everywhere I can in London. Not only to prepare my body, but to break in my new Altberg desert boots. Check out the video
Read MoreI learned to defer to experience and ask for the input from people your team - Jack has more experience as a cameraman and editor than me, so I would ask him for his opinion on narrative flow and sequencing
Read MoreNAP will help you construct a story. But remember that unique content, good writing and a good story will be your strongest factors in winning a commission.
Read MoreThe most interesting aspect comes from the dualistic authorship of the book - seeing how different the two rowers' motivations are, and how they cope with different sorts of pressure.
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