Read this piece earlier this week and it's truly, truly excellent, weaves together so many threads of past and present survival, exploration, pioneer spirit, and bearing witness. Really fulfilling, a masterly work.
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Agreed, really excellent piece of writing. Such a waste of a life, and for what?
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Nah. Shackleton's lifeblood was a restless command to thrust onward, onward, onward. Straight from the piece and Shackleton himself, “Better a live donkey than a dead lion.”
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I was referring to Worsley, he didn't heed Shackleton's words-- he's a dead lion
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Ah! I'd misunderstood your response. You're absolutely right. Cheers!
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Shackleton didn't have thinsolate and Gore-Tex.
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