Neil Laughton

From Everest with Bear Grylls to the Poles to piloting the first ever flying car.

 
 
 

Neil Laughton is an expeditioner extraordinaire. He has summited the highest mountains on each and every continent. He has skied his way to the North and South Poles, he piloted the first ever road-legal flying car from London to Timbuktu.

In this conversation Neil talks about leading Bear Grylls up Everest having attempted it two years before during the worst storm on the mountain. He talks about ascending Aconcagua and flying over the Straits of Gibraltar in a car!

This podcast is a reminder that in life “It is not what you have that counts, but what you have done” - Reinhold Messner.

Related Links and reading

Neil’s website

Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer

Facing Up, Bear Grylls

Everest – Film trailer