Nine point Five
Wahey. National Geographic Adventure magazine are featuring me in their October issue's 'What it Takes' feature, detailing 36 of the world's toughest challenges. I'd not seen the magazine before (I think it's published in the US and Canada only) but they've been great fun to work with.
Anyhow, the challenges are rated on a numerical scale:
'Numbers indicate level of difficulty, on a scale of one (might break a sweat) to ten (might break the laws of nature, a few essential bones and your mother's heart.'
Of the 36, Mike Melville (63-year-old pilot of SpaceShipOne) scores a richly deserved 9.9, and I'm in second place – skiing solo to the North Pole scores a whopping 9.5.
I'll be dining out on that one for a while…
— Filed under Rumination