April 16, 2010

such an adventurer

CANT BELIEVE HE WAS BORN IN 1975!!

Olly steeds

Oliver (Olly) finds it rather odd to write in the third person so instead will try the first person. You could be fooled to think I had a split personality – Jekyll and Hyde (but the good bits)- in part being an investigative journalist and in part, an adventurer-explorer. I see them an extension of the same thing – call me an old hippy but I think a better understanding, communication, sustainable development and conservation of our little planet is a good thing.

In the 2006 publication, “Faces of Exploration: Encounters with 50 Extraordinary Pioneers”, I was humbled and embarrassed to be the youngest featured alongside such heroes as Buzz Aldrin, Sir Ran Fiennes, Dr. Jane Goodall and Sir Edmund Hillary, Wilfred Thesiger and described as “a representative of the new generation: modern, media savvy, high-tech, digital adventurer”.

I am very proud to be a Director of Digital Explorer – an organisation that engages young people in global issues for a better future and co-founder of the non-profit iNOMAD.

I am currently splitting my time between continuing international investigative reporting and hosting “Solving History with Olly Steeds” on the Discovery Channel.

I’m a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society, one of the founding six evolutionaries behind the Beagle Campaign, Fellow of the Explorers’ Club and Scientific Exploration Society. I speak rather bad Mandarin Chinese and worse French, Mongolian, Kombai, Mek, Machigenga and Uighur. I’m trying to learn Spanish.

“All the hubris of one of Benedict Allen’s video diaries – but funny, funny, funny.”
- The Times

10 questions I thought I’d never have to ask

  1. What’s the best way to cook human flesh? (New Guinea)
  2. Are you sure you an anethetist? What happens when I lose conciousness? (broken arm, somewhere in former Soviet Union)
  3. Why do you think I’m a transvestite? (at home in Reading, UK)
  4. Why are you trying to set me up with the Minister of the Interior? (to the President of Botswana)
  5. Why do we only have 5 boiled sweets to eat and Wet Wipes to drink for the next 4 days? (On foot, in the Gobi desert)
  6. Are we lost? (Answer: Yes. – situation as above)
  7. I’ve broken out of prison and I’m on the run. Can you call the Consulate? (To my mother).
  8. Please can you be more gentle? (To Fijians whilst playing rugby against them in Hong Kong)
  9. Why are you doing this? (To myself whilst tackling trying to run 6 consequetive marathons across the Sahara)
  10. Do you have anything bigger? (To an arms dealer in a known Al Qaeda gunmarket, Yemen)

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  • 1樓

    1樓搶頭香

    幹嘛!用英文寫網誌阿……

  • yufang0810 at April 18, 2010 10:05 AM comment | prosecute
  • 2樓

    2樓頸推

    練英文不是很好
    就是因為不想寫,就用剪貼這樣

  • paiyuchi at April 20, 2010 01:11 AM comment | prosecute
  • 3樓

    3樓坐沙發

    白老師~
    你貼出來 就要翻譯給我們看啊~
    你這個洋鬼子~
    明明就是台灣人貼什麼英文字
    擾民!!!
    我要號召大家公ㄍㄢ`你

  • lovemoney68 at April 20, 2010 09:40 PM comment | prosecute
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