Editing Matthew Parris (section)

===Travel writing===
Parris has made several expeditions abroad. They include [[Mount Kilimanjaro]] in 1967 and in 1989; [[Zaire]] (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) in 1973; the Sahara in 1978; [[Peru]]; [[Bolivia]]. In 1990 he published ''Inca-Kola'' about his travels in Peru.

He spent the Antarctic winter of 2000 on the French possession of Grande Terre, part of the [[Kerguelen Islands|Kerguelen]] Archipelago in the Indian Ocean, with a few dozen over-winterers, mostly researchers. One of them was fatally shot in an accident during his stay, about which he wrote for ''The Times''.<ref>[http://www.times-archive.co.uk/onlinespecials/features/parris/ Matthew Parris's account of stay on Kerguelen in 2000], ''The Times'' {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080511163817/http://www.times-archive.co.uk/onlinespecials/features/parris/ |date=11 May 2008 }}</ref>