You have to be a little bit crazy...

摘要

African coups, knife attacks by murderous tribesmen, tropical cyclones and long journeys on frozen Siberian rivers - just another day in the office for Christopher Campbell-Hicks. The son of a Canadian pilot and an English teacher, Campbell-Hicks grew up in Australia, where a trip through the outback in the 1960s led to his life's calling. "I ran short of money and started hopping freight trains and hitchhiking to reach Darwin," he says. "Broke, in the middle of the Northern Territory desert, I asked for a job at the old Peko copper and gold mine outside Tennant Creek."