SOUTH GEORGIA ISLAND
Shackleton Quest
Executive summary by darmansjah
CRAMMED with mountains, glaciers, and penguins,
this stark place can seem more like the Antarctic than Antarctica itself, say
those who’ve been to both. The Anglo-Irish polar explorer Ernest Shackleton
landed here in 1916 after sailing 800 treacherous miles in an open boat, only
to trudge across the island in a bid for safety. Retrace his journey, by ski
and sleigh, from King Haakon Bay up the Murray Snowfield, over the spine of the Trident
Ridge to Crean
Glacier,
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