How the Foundation was named

In 1996, an adventurer was just returning from the South Pole as we were organising our first expedition. He was then giving conferences and, during a question period, an eight-year-old boy asked him what you had to do to become an explorer. The man answered: “When I was your age, one day, I got on the tips of my toes and realised that I could see farther. That’s how I became an explorer.”