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Something Understood: Exploration

Exploration

22/06/2014

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British writer and mountaineer Stephen Venables considers the importance of exploration.

Drawing on the words of explorer Eric Shipton, British writer and mountaineer Stephen Venables considers the importance of exploration.

"There are few treasures of more lasting worth than the experiences of a way of life that is in itself wholly satisfying. Such, after all, are the only possessions of which no fate, no cosmic catastrophe, can deprive us; nothing can alter the fact if for one moment in eternity we have really lived."

Drawing on these words from the explorer Eric Shipton, the British writer and mountaineer Stephen Venables considers the importance of exploration.

Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4.

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