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...some of us took up the offer to camp overnight on the ice. The temperature that southern summer evening dipped to a balmy -3?C, and the perfect silence of the sky enveloped me like a blanket. It was then that I understood the quote by Apsley Cherry-Garrand, the 24-year-old member of Captain R.F. Scott's tragic 1910 expedition. "Polar exploration," he wrote, "is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has ever been devised." And what a beautifully, wonderfully bad time it still remains...
...Died. Apsley Cherry-Garrard, 73, polar explorer who accompanied Robert Falcon Scott on his fatal Antarctic expedition in 1911, later described in chilling detail (The Worst Journey in the World) a side trip he and two .companions made to find emperor penguin eggs; in London...
...know if a copy of the same statue is in Apsley House in London, as stated in your footnote . . . But I do know that your photographer must have been in [Milan...
...decided to provide Paris with another ornament: a colossal statue of himself done in classical style. Paris, as it turned out, had only a relatively short time to admire it. After Waterloo, the statue caught the sardonic eye of the Duke of Wellington. Presently the statue was installed in Apsley House, London residence of the duke, where it stands to this...
Last week at Grove Hill near Hellingly, Sussex, brawny workmen employed by Anglo-American Oil Co. began to drill with up-to-the-minute apparatus capable of boring more than a mile. Present with intense official interest was Lord Apsley, representing the Minister for Coordination of Defense. Some time in August, Britain will get another check on her home oil potential...