The man felt like a speck in the frozen nothingness. Every direction he turned, he could see ice stretching to the edge of the Earth: white ice and blue ice. There were no living creatures in sight. Not a bear or even a bird. Nothing but him: http://nyer.cm/bZR2Qnn pic.twitter.com/iHlY57MNCv
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The man, whose name was Henry Worsley, consulted a G.P.S. device to determine precisely where he was. According to his coördinates, he was on the Titan Dome, an ice formation near the South Pole that rises more than ten thousand feet above sea level: http://nyer.cm/bZR2Qnn pic.twitter.com/ovCXCEc2I7
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Sixty-two days earlier, on November 13, 2015, he’d set out from the coast of Antarctica, hoping to achieve what his hero, Ernest Shackleton, had failed to do a century earlier: to trek on foot from one side of the continent to the other. http://nyer.cm/bZR2Qnn pic.twitter.com/cfPuKAHnPc
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The journey, which would pass through the South Pole, was more than a thousand miles, and would traverse what is arguably the most brutal environment in the world. http://nyer.cm/bZR2Qnn pic.twitter.com/27o49VKGuN
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And, whereas Shackleton had been part of a large expedition, Worsley, who was fifty-five, was crossing alone and unsupported: http://nyer.cm/bZR2Qnn pic.twitter.com/YfA8tV5X0I
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No food caches had been deposited along the route to help Worsley forestall starvation, and he had to haul all his provisions on a sled, without the assistance of dogs or a sail. Nobody had attempted this feat before: http://nyer.cm/bZR2Qnn pic.twitter.com/YIwuFeJm3K
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Read @DavidGrann's story about Henry Worsley’s solitary journey—that became a singular test of character—across Antarctica: http://nyer.cm/bZR2Qnn pic.twitter.com/AOR9wi7al0
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Replying to @NewYorker @DavidGrann
As a longtime subscriber to the New Yorker who usually reads it on the iPad app, it sure is frustrating to find that the web version of articles have more content and are more engagingly designed than the iPad version.
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