Day Six - A special dinner guest

Published: 7:17AM Tuesday January 19, 2010

Source: ONE News

By Jack Tame in Antarctica

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Day Six - A special dinner guest (Source: ONE News)

David Attenborough - Source: ONE News

Watch Video Jack Tame speaks to David Attenborough in Antarctica (6:33)

Sir David Attenborough popped around for tea last night. He brought a posse, a troop of peeps, a flock of homies.

But he didn't bring a dish.

We'd actually known he was coming for a few days now. Well, the rumour was that he was coming anyway. You can never tell in Antarctica, it's a continent of tall tales. In the last two days I've met a guy who single-handedly hauled a hagglund out of a crevasse using only his teeth, and a woman who reckons she caught a snapper through a hole in the sea ice.

Sir David Attenborough was a lovely man. Polite, witty and unpretentious, he sat with the masses and sipped chardonnay. He even let Dan and me steal him away for an interview .

There was no red carpet, no trumpeter, no wide-eyed pleb kissing his crampons. Just roast beef with kumara and gravy, with diabetes-inducing chocolate pudding.

Barry the chef got his hat signed. He was chuffed.

The most important David Attenborough questions answered:

- Yes, his voice does sound EXACTLY the same.

- Trivial Pursuit, but Scrabble's a close second. He once scored 198 with "pseudcoelmates"on two triple words.

- A bear would beat a lion.