“What I thought was a burden was a tether across death’s divide.”
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The Romance History Forgot
Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s doomed journey to the South Pole captivated the world. But hidden within the legend was a story that has never been told—a love affair between two of the crew who survived.
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Fire. Dog. Life. Ice
“The thing that always haunted me about explorers was that when they left, they never knew if they were coming back.”
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The Last Place on Earth Any Tourist Should Go
“Take Antarctica off your travel bucket list.”
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Roxane Gay in Antarctica: The Things We Do for Love
“Once upon a time, writer Roxane Gay and her wife, the illustrator Debbie Millman, set sail to Antarctica. Here, they each tell the tale—well, their version of it.”
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The Ghosts of Antarctica Will Haunt the End of the World
“As climate change threatens to upend the icy kingdom, we’re writing ghost stories in real time.”
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When You Race Across Antarctica, Remember Your Spare Skis
“They would face wind chill temperatures in the neighborhood of minus 70 degrees Fahrenheit, whiteout days with little visibility, unseasonable snowfall, isolation and pain.”
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Determined to Hitch a Ride on the Greatest Rig in America
An excerpt of The Stowaway: A Young Man’s Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica, about Billy Gawronski, a 17-year-old who was hell-bent on stowing away to Antarctica on Richard Evelyn Byrd’s 1928 expedition.