The extreme Adventurer & three Time World Record Holder who walked breadth of Mongolia; entire length of Madagascar, summiting its eight highest mountains; & the whole 6,363 KM of our Yangtze River, on almost giving up 5 days into a 352 day walk, but after 2 years of planning; and being an inspiration to millions around the globe in overcoming adversity.
走遍蒙古的极限冒险家、三届世界纪录保持者；马达加斯加全长，登顶八座最高的山峰； & 长江全长 6,363 公里，在 352 天的步行中几乎放弃了 5 天，但经过了 2 年的计划；并激励全球数百万人克服逆境。
“Already at this point, I had lost seven or eight members of the team. [They were] were being evacuated; altitude sickness, finding out that there were bears or wolves, or injury or it was too cold. On top of that, I had been pulled in 3 or 4 times by the local authorities. It was dropping in to winter season, so it was minus 20 degrees Celsius; there were snow blizzards. I was at 5,100 metres altitude, I had a horse that I had to take with me because the film crew ditched me and left the horse with me. I had all of this and then… I was threatened with deportation.
“此时，我的团队已经失去了七八名成员。他们被疏散；高原反应，发现有熊或狼，或者受伤，或者太冷。除此之外，我被当地政府拉了三四次。现在正值冬季，所以气温为零下20摄氏度；还有暴风雪。我在海拔5100米，我我不得不带着那匹马，因为摄制组抛弃了我，把这匹马留在了我身边，然后……我受到了驱逐出境的威胁。
“I remember being on the satellite phone to my dad, saying, ‘What am I doing, why am I doing this again?’. But I had no choice, there were too many people relying on me, too much hard work that had gone in to it; time and energy. But it was that point which I had never been at before; even catching malaria or even almost dying in the Gobi desert. … One world first is enough for most people, two is tough to find, and I was now suffering and struggling on a third. And I was like, ‘I don’t need to do this. Why am I here?!”.
“我记得我在卫星电话里对我爸爸说，‘我在做什么，为什么又要做这个？’。但我别无选择，有太多的人依赖我，投入了太多的努力、时间和精力。但那是我以前从未经历过的，甚至感染了疟疾，甚至差点死在戈壁滩上。……对大多数人来说，一个世界第一就足够了，两个很难找到，而我现在正在为第三个而痛苦和挣扎。而我就像，‘我不需要这样做，我为什么在这里？！’。
“A parent from New Zealand contacted me and she said, ‘About 2 or 3 months ago, my little boy wrote to you on Instagram, saying he was following your Yangtze journey. It was quite a deep message’, and she was like, ‘I don’t know if you remember the message; you probably get messages all the time’. I remembered the message. And she said, ‘He didn’t expect you to get back, but you responded. And from that, he continued doing what he did a year ago, before he lost his dad’. She said that after he lost his dad, he went down a spiral; he stopped karate, he became bad at school and then, it got to a point where she found suicide notes which also contained pictures of how he was going to kill himself.
“一位来自新西兰的家长联系我，她说，‘大约两三个月前，我的小儿子在 Instagram 上给你写信，说他正在关注你的长江之旅。这是一条很深刻的信息’，她说，‘我不知道你是否还记得这条信息；你可能一直收到这条信息’。我记得这条信息。她说，‘他没想到你会回来，但你回复了。从那以后，他继续做一年前所做的事情，然后他她说，失去父亲后，他的人生每况愈下；他停止了空手道，在学校变得很糟糕，然后，她发现了遗书，其中还包含他将如何自杀的照片。
“And she wrote, saying, ‘You’ll never know this, but a few months ago, your message transformed him; he started karate, he started behaving at school; his life has become brighter because of it’. And that I think is the deepest one.
“她写道，‘你永远不会知道这一点，但几个月前，你的信息改变了他；他开始空手道，他开始在学校表现良好；他的生活因此变得更加光明。’我认为这是最深刻的。
“Other ones I’ve had are from people wanting to get out there and adventure more, wanting to pursue their goals. I’ve had people wanting to quit their job to pursue their passion and try to make that a bit of a career. I’ve had people just change their ways of living off the fact they heard one of my stories on the journey.
“我遇到的其他人来自那些想要走出去、更多冒险、想要追求自己的目标的人。我也有人想要辞掉工作去追求自己的激情，并试图把它变成一种职业。我也有人只是因为在旅途中听到了我的故事而改变了他们的生活方式。
“People take from it whatever they want to take. I try to look at different angles, I try to make the story relatable to everyone; not just about one man walking. It’s just amazing to help people persevere; even some things simple like staying in university, finishing off their exams.
“人们从中得到他们想要得到的任何东西。我尝试从不同的角度来看，我试图让这个故事与每个人产生共鸣；而不仅仅是一个人走路的故事。帮助人们坚持下去真是太棒了；甚至一些简单的事情，比如留在大学，完成考试。
“I think it goes full circle. They see or hear the stories of mine that motivate or inspire them to do something, and they come back around eventually to tell me, which motivates me to continue what I’m doing which then motivates someone else.”
“我认为这是一个完整的循环。他们看到或听到我的故事，这些故事激励或启发他们去做某事，他们最终会回来告诉我，这激励我继续我正在做的事情，然后激励其他人。”
