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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kitefarrago" data-source="post: 3201426" data-attributes="member: 91670">To be fair to Noah as far as I can tell he's doing it as low cost as he can, sleeping on floors in people's homes or in budget hotels, and being taken around by local birdwatchers. The previous record holders did take part in commercial tours (not that there's anything wrong with that!), but it seems to me that Noah's costs are mostly flights, and subsistence is quite low.His first few days on an Antarctic cruise he worked as a guide, so he didn't have to pay for that himself. In that sense sombeody who can take a year out, is willing to make the contacts, and do the planning, probably doesn't require that much capital to try to follow in his footsteps (although I assume the `making contact with local birdwatchers' bit will get harder if more people try to follow that model).Andrea</blockquote>