I Wanted To Be An Explorer, But Gradually Found The World Had Been Explored And That There Was Nowhere Left, Really. Once They Climbed Everest In 1953, When I Was 10 Years Old, I Thought, 'well, That's Pretty Much It Now.' But The Idea Of Travelling And Exploring And Adventure Was Very Strong.

-Michael Palin

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I Wanted To Be An Explorer, But

Michael Palin

I Wanted To Be An Explorer, But Gradually Found The World Had Been Explored And That There Was Nowhere Left, Really. Once They Climbed Everest In 1953, When I Was 10 Years Old, I Thought, 'well, That's Pretty Much It Now.' But The Idea Of Travelling And Exploring And Adventure Was Very Strong.

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Strong

Adventure

Years

When I'm Travelling, I Always Take My Little Notebook And Scribble Things Down As I Watch Them; I'm Very Much Geared To Everything That's Happening. Whereas, The Diary I Keep Is Just About A Record Of A Day I've Spent. When I'm Filming, I'm Looking Quite Intensely At Everything I See And Trying To Get My Own Eye On What We're Going Through.

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Trying