The doyen of British explorers Robin Hanbury-Tension brings together explorers old and new in a talk that gives a lie to the notion that there is nowhere left on Earth to explore. His The Modern Explorers includes accounts by veteran explorers such as Ranulph Fiennes and Chris Bonington and introduces some new, younger explorers making their way. There are tales of walks across the fiercest desert, a climb up a sheer rock that has never before been conquered and of pedalling a boat across the Pacific. In The Great Explorers, Hanbury-Tension edits a collection of stories about 40 great explorers going back five centuries.

Hanbury-Tension’s appearance is the second of two talks on explorers and follows a talk by Kari Herbert on the wives of explorers. He is a founder and now president of Survival International and has led many expeditions including a crossing of South America by river and an expedition into the interior of Borneo. He co-edited The Modern Explorers with fellow explorer and writer Robert Twigger. He also edited The Seventy Great Journeys in History.