Expedition Enthusiast Gifts

Solo North pole expedition - 'Bugger!'

'It would be a kindness to tell he HAS won his Duke of Edinburgh Award.'

1910: It looked like Scott would have to find his own way to the pole.

'Are you going anywhere near a chemist?'

Lend me a fiver - "Careful Dempster, this swamp is crawling with leeches."

'Let's face it Hargreaves, not a sign of life anywhere.'

'Why, it's Admiral Byrd! Calling from little America.'

Conquering Baked Alaska

'The church says the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round for I have seen the shadow on the Moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.'

'Holy-Kanoly' makes his infamous 'Leap-of-Faith' jump.

"I'll have the Investigator's Special."

"I've come across a rather disturbing find, Carstairs!"

Dear Diary. . . why, oh why, did I choose an adventure holiday?

'You can forget the Captain's table-we're not paying that kind of money just to eat with the crew!'

Child about to jump off ironing board into bath.

Bears going water skiing.

"We have all the brochures, but we can't decide if we want to die on Mt. Everest or Mt. McKinley."

Crew Goofs Off While Out Of Sight

'The next piece contains sex, violence, and Homeric epithets.'

"Either we spend millions on new technology to erase each agent's memory following a sensitive assignment, or we just start hiring people over fifty."

"Since global warming the Abominable Snowman is much less frightening than he used to be."

"Honey, where's the baby?" "The first voyage of Sinbad"

It is a lesser known historical fact that Sir Edmund Hillary was also the first person to climb Mount Everest and forget to take the lens cap off.

'When I was a Scout, we had to blaze trails without sticky notes.'

Breakthrough

Do you have a phone with recording capabilities? I want to be able to carry a wire when I meet with my boss.

'We're looking for somebody to work on our new top secret project. Can you tell me what kind of experience you have?'

CIA, 'Confound it, Ruggles -- we're SUPPOSED to be worrywarts'

"I started my career as an industrial spy-here."

"I'm supposed to wake Jasper up at sunrise, but which pile of snow is he asleep under?"

Snowman of the Apes

"Ok, I found a secure line."

Holiday Adventures - Off the beaten path.

'FASTER! PADDLE FASTER!'

Public footpath on a desert island.