INTERVIEW: The Iceman Cometh, Christian Redl and Edox

A hole in the ice, a wetsuit, a rope and a shaft of light barely penetrating the 2000m deep waters chilled to two degrees below zero; these were the basic elements that confronted Christian Redl, champion free diver on the day he was the first person to free dive under the North Pole. The first dive of three took just one, adrenaline charged minute but it was 12 years in the making. In 2003 when he did his first ever…

INTERVIEW: 20 crazy minutes on a capsizing boat with the CEO of Edox, Alexandre Strambini

Ok, so the boat wasn't exactly capsizing. But it was rocking. And the almost unlistenable audio of the interview confirms it was very, very windy when we interviewed the CEO of Edox Alexandre Strambini on the MV Extreme in Sydney Harbour in December of 2014.  Alexandre Strambini is not the kind of person you'd forget meeting. He has piercing light blue eyes, a youthful demeanour for a CEO and – prepare yourself for this – he's beaten Roger Federer. In…