Explorer Robin Hanbury-Tenison is critically ill with Covid-19, just days after he was ‘skiing like a demon’, his family said. The 83-year-old fell ill on Monday – two days after returning from a skiing trip to France with his wife, Louella, 68. Mr Hanbury-Tenison, an adventurer, anthropologist and environmentalist, has an international reputation following 60 years’ work travelling in some of the most remote parts of the world and studying indigenous people. Mr Hanbury-Tenison, an adventurer, anthropologist and environmentalist, has an international reputation following 60 years’ work travelling in some of the most remote parts of the world and studying indigenous people. Pictured: Mr Hanbury-Tenison in 1972Speaking as the book was released last month, Mr Hanbury-Tenison said he was taken aback by the developing pace of dangers such as climate change and ‘now we have the horrible new coronavirus’.

Source: Daily Mail March 20, 2020 22:59 UTC