[1] Following university, he worked in the publicity department of a record company and taught English and studied martial arts in Japan for three years.
He stood, as an experiment in participatory politics, for the Extinction Club party in the 2001 general election in the Oxford West and Abingdon constituency, receiving 93 votes.
[citation needed] In 1997 Twigger's expedition to North Borneo and Kalimantan discovered a line of menhirs across a vast stretch of jungle never before recorded.
[6] In 2004 Twigger led an expedition that completed a three-season, two-thousand-mile journey across North West Canada in the wake of eighteenth-century explorer and fur trader Alexander Mackenzie.
In 2005 Twigger and Steve Mann made the first exploration of the Western Desert using a hand hauled wheeled trolley during which they discovered the tracks of László Almásy's baby Ford expedition of the 1930s.