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But looking back from a distance of some 90 years, their story still stands as a triumph of survival. Here were six men of very different rank, class and background. When they opted to join a polar expedition, they were already laying themselves open to experiences that would be wildly removed from their normal home and service lives. What they actually experienced in Antarctica was light years away even from that. Take diet for example – food at base camp or on sledging trips was inevitably monotonous, often unpalatable. Food in the igloo was always disgusting and occasionally life-threatening. Ditto hygiene, ditto exercise, ditto ‘social life’. All polar explorers of the period expected bouts of discomfort, pain and danger. The Northern Party experienced prolonged bouts of all three.
One recent example of incarceration and survival bears comparison. Peter Shaw has just made a dramatic escape from his Georgian captors. He had been kept, in truly appalling circumstances, for five months in a hole in the ground measuring 8 feet by 5 feet. Campbell, Levick, Priestley, Abbott, Browning and Dickason spent nearly seven months in an underground room measuring 9 ft by 12 (roughly the size of a billiard table). Although Shaw’s captivity was infinitely more brutal and brutalising, men with lesser reserves of mental toughness than those of the Northern Party might have been driven to madness, suicide or murder. At the end of it all they had to stagger 230miles back to a base camp they might very well have found abandoned. Scott’s strengths and weaknesses have been discussed endlessly since his death, but if six of the apparently perfectly ordinary men he was instrumental in picking could display such astonishing mental and physical reserves, it does vindicate at least one vital aspect of his leadership.
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Book Description Condition: New. As Scott and his two companions lay dying in their tent, elsewhere on the polar ice-cap six members of his ill-fated expedition, the Northern Party, were fighting for their lives. Led by Dr Levick, this title is based on his previously unpublished diaries, monographs, photographs and sketches. Num Pages: 224 pages, 16. BIC Classification: 1MTS; 3JJC; BTP; RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 303. . 2002. 2002 First Edition. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Seller Inventory # V9780712679954
Book Description Condition: New. As Scott and his two companions lay dying in their tent, elsewhere on the polar ice-cap six members of his ill-fated expedition, the Northern Party, were fighting for their lives. Led by Dr Levick, this title is based on his previously unpublished diaries, monographs, photographs and sketches. Num Pages: 224 pages, 16. BIC Classification: 1MTS; 3JJC; BTP; RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 303. . 2002. 2002 First Edition. Paperback. . . . . Seller Inventory # V9780712679954
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