If you’re asking why anyone would want to live through this kind of hell in order to plant a flag, well, you’re not alone. Blinded by endless blizzards? Right, compasses don’t work this close to the magnetic pole good luck finding your way.” The sudden strange cold on your face at night? One hundred mph winds just carried off your only tent.
“That cracking sound you hear? Oh, just the sea ice breaking apart and floating away with your supplies and horses. “With every page, you think their situation can’t possibly get any worse and then it does,” writes Jynne Martin for NPR. One side effect of the expedition: Cherry-Garrard developed a lifelong affection for emperor penguins.īecause of its compelling story and his vivid writing, Cherry-Garrard's memoir of the failed expedition to be first to reach the South Pole (Norway’s Roald Amundsen’s team beat the Scott expedition by five weeks and were first to plant a flag), was a big seller back in England. The cairn and Cross stood dark against a glory of burnished gold.” And the sky was blazing-sheets and sheets of iridescent clouds. He wrote: “that scene can never leave my memory.”Īfter they built a cairn atop the bodies of the three men, he wrote, “the sun was dipping low aboved the Pole, the Barrier almost in shadow. Wilson, the expedition’s chief scientist. But it led to the writing of his book, which chronicled his adventure seeking emperor penguin embryos and of being a part of the search party that found the body of Scott and his two companions, Lt. That expedition did not go as planned-at all. Their mission: to be first to make it to the South Pole.
“As War and Peace is to novels, so is The Worst Journey in the World to the literature of polar travel: the one to beat,” wrote the magazine.īorn on this day in 1886, the explorer was only in his twenties when in 1910 he volunteered to go to the Antarctic with explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his men. “Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised,” Apsley Cherry-Garrard wrote at the beginning of his memoir.Ĭherry-Garrard’s memoir of a miserable Antarctic expedition, The Worst Journey in the World, was ranked number one on National Geographic’s list of the 100 greatest adventure books of all time.
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