The White Darkness – A Solitary Journey Across Antarctica (2018)

The White Darkness – A Solitary Journey Across Antarctica (2018)

\n\n\t\t\tThe man, whose name was Henry Worsley, consulted a G.P.S. device to determine precisely where he was. \n\n\t\t\tWorsley’s sled—which, at the outset, weighed three hundred and twenty-five pounds, nearly double his own weight—was attached to a harness around his waist, and to drag it across the ice he wore cross-country skis and pushed forward with poles in each hand. One evening, two weeks into his journey, he said:\n\n\n\t\t\tI overslept a little this morning, which, actually, I was grateful for, as the previous forty-eight hours’ labor has been hugely draining.

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