I should write a play. The action would hover between the epic and the comic: Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World meets I’m A Celebrity. The plot centres on a team of explorers bashing their way through dense forest on a distant planet in some future age. Their aim is to reach the pass where a route up to a conjectured plateau — let’s call it Plateau Sovereignty — is rumoured to begin.

Plateau Sovereignty may be only a fable or, if real, not worth the effort. Some of the team have their suspicions, others are gung-ho. It’s open to them at any point to call the whole adventure off and return to safety, but they’ve promised their millions of sponsors (they are crowd-sourced)