When I'm skiing, I listen to electronic music. It's repetitive and let's me get into a groove and crank out the miles.

- Ben Saunders

I've diced with death the most cycling around London. Black cabs are far more dangerous than polar bears.

- Ben Saunders

Expeditions are escapism. The stuff that we're normally concerned about just doesn't matter out there. Tax returns, gas bill, none of it. Life becomes very simple, it's about moving in a certain direction - north if you're going north - staying warm and not getting eaten. That's it.

- Ben Saunders

I'm not particularly gifted; I'm not genetically freakish in any sense; I'm absolutely average.

- Ben Saunders

Environmental scientists in Canada said it was impossible for me to get to the Pole in 2004... I said 'no,' it's still OK, and I can still get there, and I did.

- Ben Saunders

My Antarctic expedition is just about doable, just feasible and that's what is exciting to me. If I knew it was possible, if I knew I could do it without too much bother, I wouldn't be interested.

- Ben Saunders

I don't think of myself as an explorer but as an athlete.

- Ben Saunders

What's the nastiest injury I've sustained? Just a frostbitten toe... but thankfully it's still intact.

- Ben Saunders