Pair (or group of 3 persons) work  : You are going to record or act an interview of the adventurer of your choice.

 One of you will be the journalist asking questions, the other an adventurer, that you may choose from the list below, or not !
 The work will be recorded or played live in front of the group in two weeks.

Guidelines

The interview will be conducted by the journalist.

Introduction :

The journalist will welcome the viewers/listeners, present the adventurer, and start asking questions.

Interview :

The adventurer will answer the questions will details, not just "yes" or "no"...

The journalist will comment on the answers, exclaims etc...

Advice  :

Make your interview lively, like on TV or on the radio.

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For inspiration about adventurers, you can use this site to find ideas and names. Here is a copy of their main article :

Legends

 Sir Ranulph Fiennes

The Guinness Book of Records called him "the world’s greatest living explorer" after his epic 100,000 mile Transglobe Expedition in 1982. But, the epithet from his patron, Prince Charles, is perhaps more apt : "Mad but marvellous."

 Sir Chris Bonington

Arguably the most prolific climber of the world, for more than 50 years Sir Chris has made first ascents from the crags of Britain to the mountains of the Himalayas. Aged 74, he continues to climb and explore unknown mountains.

 Sir Robin Knox-Johnston

As the first person to sail single-handed, non-stop around the world, Sir Robin needs little introduction. Three years ago, aged 67, he proved he still had it in him, competing in the Velux 5 Oceans race.

 Col John Blashford-Snell

His fondness for dressing up like Indiana Jones and searching for strange animals make it difficult to take "Blashers" too seriously today. But his descents of the Blue Nile in 1968 and Congo River in 1974-5 were pioneering and helped popularise white-water rafting. He later founded Operation Raleigh, the forerunner for almost all gap year projects.

 Sir Chay Blyth

Sir Chay characterises a certain British approach to adventure – that ability to bite the bullet and get on with it. In 1966 he rowed the Atlantic with John Ridgeway then entered the 1968 Round the World Yacht race despite having virtually no sailing experience. Four years later, he became the first man to sail the wrong way around the world. Alpinists

 Mick Fowler

Few climbers take such an enthusiastic approach to the vicarious pleasures of hard alpinism as Mick Fowler, who has recently taken to exploring China’s mountains. As famous for his taxman day job as his fondness for understatement – a miserable bivouac is likely to be described as "impressively uncomfortable".

 Kenton Cool

Cool has forged a reputation as one of Britain’s hard young climbers. His ascent of Annapurna III in Nepal with Ian Parnell earned him a Piolet d’Or nomination – a climbing Oscar. He has also climbed Mount Everest six times, including twice in one week as a guide – a formidable achievement.

 Leo Houlding

Best known for racing Jeremy Clarkson up the Verdon Gorge, Houlding is a pioneer of para-alpinism – climbing huge rock faces then BASE jumping back down again. He describes the sport as "bloody dangerous and highly addictive".

Aviation

 Richard Meredith-Hardy

A two-time winner of the Britannia Trophy, Meredith-Hardy is the first and only man to have piloted a microlight over the summit of Mount Everest.

 Brian Milton

A born adventurer, Milton’s first expedition was to drive across the Sahara Desert to meet his fiancée. In 1998 he became the first man to microlight around the world.

 Brian Jones

In 1999, Brian Jones and Bertrand Piccard Jones were the first men to pilot a balloon non-stop around the world. The former RAF pilot is now developing a solar-powered aeroplane.

Underwater

 Rick Stanton

Rick Stanton is at the forefront of modern cave exploration, crawling in the Earth’s underbelly to places where no humans have been before and few are likely to follow.

  Phil Short

Short is a top "tech" diver who explores caves, ranging from his local Swildon’s Hole in the Mendips to the Urals. A master of furrowing through confined and difficult spaces his motto is : "It’s too tight when I can’t get my head through."

Women

 Justine Curgenven

Curgenven is one of the world’s top sea kayakers. In 2007, she successfully paddled 1,700 miles around New Zealand’s South Island. 15 Roz Savage After 11 years as a management consultant, Savage rowed solo across the Atlantic in 2005. Last year, she rowed from California to Hawaii.

 Dee Caffari

A protégé of Sir Chay Blyth, Caffari became the first woman to sail single-handed the wrong way around the world in 2006. She then successfully made the leap to professional sailing, finishing sixth in last year’s Vendee Globe.

 Ann Daniels

When the polar explorer Pen Hadow was looking for a navigator for his Catlin Arctic Survey he chose Ann Daniels, "not because she’s a woman. But because she’s the best".

Free spirits

 Jason Lewis

Lewis fought crocodiles, broke his leg and nearly went mad during his 13-year, 46,000-mile odyssey circumnavigating the globe by pedal power.

 Pen Hadow

Only one man has ever trekked solo and unsupported to the Geographic North Pole from Canada. It defeated numerous explorers for 20 years. The crown went to Pen Hadow in 2003.

 Benedict Allen

Benedict Allen has led expeditions across the Amazon, where he famously ate his dog, Papua New Guinea and the Namib desert. He also pioneered the video diary.

 You can also read this about Abby Sunderland.

 Ellen MacArthur is also a well-known adventurer.

 You can choose the famous TV presenters Steve Backshall (See his page here)
 or Bear Grylls, who presents the TV show "man vs wild".

 There is also Aron Ralston You know his story if you saw the film "127 hours."

 You may want to interview Diana Nyad about her passion for swimming.

 If you read p 27 in your book, you’ll learn about Mark pollock and the adventure he lived in the South Pole.

 On page 35, you will meet Mike Perham, and may like to interview him about his experience as a navigator.

 If you are interested in extreme surfing, then you may wish to interview Laird hamilton,
 or Kelly Slater, the world champion.