Word: apsley
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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...