Avaunt

Polar explorer Ben Saunders on new adventuring magazine, Avaunt.

An enduring memory from my childhood is the huge faded yellow shelf of National Geographics my uncle had, and I used to spend hours picking them out at random, and reading them cover to cover. Then, as a teenager, I discovered titles like GQ and Esquire. Until that point, as a kid growing up in rural England who wore clothes my mum bought me, and who loved riding my bike and playing computer games with my mates, fashion and style were totally abstract concepts, so magazines have always been both escapism and education to me, little doorways into parallel worlds that I never knew existed.