[He's learned the hard way that foregoing comfort on these arduous treks just isn't worth it!! He shrugs at the question, already putting mayonnaise on a pork pie.]

Not directly, but maybe indirectly. The people who got statues put up were those who led the ritual to launch the Fisher King's corpse into the calamity, and as a result of that Excalibur was weakened to the point where we can now try to retrieve it without getting pulverised, or whatever would have happened.