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Re:Colin O’Brady Completes Crossing of Antarctica with Final... by aedocw on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @10:10PM (#18766944)
Not the book the guy told you about, but one of the finest memoirs ever written about exploring Antarctica - The Worst Journey In The World.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Worst_Journey_in_the_World

It's a fantastic read, written by Apsley Cherry-Garrard who was part of Scott's expedition. Such an amazing story, and to think they were doing this in a day where sat phones and GPS were not a thing (not even flashlights!)

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Re:Colin O’Brady Completes Crossing of Antarctica with Final... by robaato on Thursday December 27, 2018 @06:01AM (#18768815)
Off topic, but was given a brief guided tour of the egg collection at Natural History Museum at Tring when we donated my father-in-laws collection a couple of months ago - we were shown the 3 Emperor Penguin eggs collected by Cherry-Garrard and donated - fascinating! Here they are in a presentation by Douglas Russell, curator (who also showed us round).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdBT670fiCQ

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