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- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Steve Fossett and I would share a common belief that it is possible and good to challenge yourself to the extreme.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Khazak culture, historically, if any traveller comes riding from a long way, there is an obligation to take him into your home. For the first three days, the host doesn't even have the right to ask his name, his destination or his business.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you come out of the storms and sub-zero temperatures into a tiny yurt, there's a sense that family love and care is the most important thing in the world.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the nomads really give us inspiration about how we can live in harmony with our environment.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Earth was not built to serve the needs of humans.
- Patience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think patience is something that any of us grow up with in a large dose. It's a world of instant gratification.
- Gallop
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the Altai Mountains. Crimea, despite all the conflict, is a remarkable place historically, culturally and physically. The mountains drop down into the sea. Porpoises swim in the shallows. Horses gallop through the grass. There are huge rocks, castles, caves.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My three-year ride by horse from Mongolia to Hungary was the most difficult, most revealing, and interesting of any of my travels. Travelling by horse, you're far more engaged and dependent on the land and other people than by any other means.
- Big Impact
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- Nov 07, 2020
Meeting Australian mountaineer and author Tim Macartney-Snape when I was 16 in 1994 had a big impact on me. His ascent of Everest from sea to summit captured my imagination.
- Horse
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have brought many artifacts back with me from the steppe. My favourite is a 90-year-old Kazakh saddle decorated with silverwork in traditional motifs. It symbolises the deep relationship between man and horse on the Eurasian Steppe.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the initial stages of my journey, I was trying to travel too fast by horse by sticking to a 'five days on and two off' schedule. On the steppe, time is not measured by days, weeks or hours but the fall of the seasons and condition of the animals.
- Camels
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- Nov 07, 2020
A single camel can carry around 300 kilograms. Using camels for hauling during migration is becoming a rarity in Mongolia, where mechanized transport is gradually replacing traditional means.
- Legacy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Much of my journey in Kazakhstan was about understanding the legacy of the Soviet times and finding out what remained of nomadic.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Khoton people are a small minority group of Mongolians renowned for living a traditional nomad life in the remote slopes and valleys of the Kharkhiraa-Turgen mountain range.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Finding shelter with nomads in the desert during summer was a matter of survival for me and my animals.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can see every square metre of the planet on Google Earth. But there is no substitute for that sensory experience of going out into the world and discovering things for yourself.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
Had I not stepped into the saddle in the first place, entire cultures, histories, and most importantly, profound connections with people and animals whom I now counted as my friends would have otherwise passed by, invisible.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020