The question
What accomplishment matters most to you?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Verbatim recurring item in The Guardian Q&A; two fully readable publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Being loved by my family and friends despite my personality.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 December 2023 source ↗
Deciding what I wanted to do at 15 and, against all odds, doing it.
Building my mum her dream home.
Everest the hard way in 1975: leading the expedition that succeeded where so many people had tried and failed. That was the most complex mountaineering challenge I ever faced. I spent hours at night in a little tent thinking about what the next problem would be and how to solve it.
To be getting paid for doing something I love.
Appearing angry when I’m not angry.
“Sorry, I don’t mean to insult you, but did you know you look a bit like that actress Siobhán McSweeney?”
Politics. And casting directors.
As Tilda Swinton in a fat suit.
On stage. Always on stage. God that’s depressing, isn’t it?
So many. I have been very cowardly in the past, and it came across as me not caring, when the opposite was true.
Roger Allam, Ashley Jensen, Katherine Parkinson, Sandy Powell, Jo Brand, Kiell Smith-Bynoe
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