Sublime

able to outsmart, outhunt and outlast the bigger, stronger and faster members of the animal kingdom.

From the first ascent of Everest by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953 to Captain Matthew Webb’s first crossing of the English Channel, it seems this idea of persistence, valour and intestinal fortitude is what bonds great feats of human endeavour throughout history.

He argued that humans – even primitive ones – were capable of remarkable things. Of great endurance and incredible ingenuity.

And a little dose of eccentricity so often goes hand in hand with such endeavours.

refrigerated heart of a ruthless, glacial predator.