Off the beaten path

Doctor Richard Harris OAM is unbelievably cool. Not cool like Travis Scott, but like that person on the other end of an emergency call when you’re having one of the worst days of your life and you need a voice of unflappable calmness to hold it together. It’s the level of cool you need to keep the hundreds of moving parts in place while you play a pivotal role in rescuing 13 people from the flooded Tham Luang caves in northern Thailand.

This sense of calm was evident when we spoke to Harris, an ambassador for adventure-oriented brand Bremont, who had just returned home from a cave dive in New Zealand.

“It’s called the Pearse Resurgence, on the South Island in the mountains