“My days are filled with interesting interactions with fellow human beings, so when I’m on vacation, I prefer to interact with the rest of the planet. And my passion for photography happens to go perfectly with this desire,” quips the audacious chairman of private equity and investment firm Symphony Asia, who has traversed the treacherous Northwest Passage that runs through the Canadian Arctic (not once but twice) in 2014 and 2015 on his private yacht Latitude. Sure, he had an experienced boating crew on-board, but nothing could prepare them for persistent polar bears, ice jams and severe snowstorms.
My days are filled with interesting interactions with fellow human beings, so when I’m on vacation, I prefer to interact with the rest of the planet”
Yet, these challenges didn’t deter the frequent traveller, who regularly shuttles between London, Bangkok, Phuket and Singapore, from returning to another polar region where walruses outnumber humans. If anything, they fuelled his love for nature and boldness to take his third Arctic expedition this July. This time, he and his crew chose to circumnavigate Svalbard, a secluded, glacier-filled archipelago between Norway and the North Pole.
