It’s the world that’s gone mad and had a war while I’ve just been sitting quietly in my tent
Explorer Pen Hadow, rescued from the North Pole after his record-breaking walk, tells Ginny Dougary of his triumph. A man looking like a cross between Howard Hughes and Barry Gibb – yellow, grey and white flecked beard, salt-sweat hair – smelling less awful than one might expect and appearing astonishingly lucid stepped off the plane …