Alastair Humphreys Adventurer | Author | Motivational Speaker

The stark polar lands grip the hearts of the men

A few words from one of the polar greats about the lure of Antarctica and the “void spaces of the world.”

“Men go out into the void spaces of the world for various reasons. Some are actuated simply by a love of adventure, some have the keen thirst for scientific knowledge, and others again are drawn away from the trodden paths by the ‘lure of little voices’, the mysterious fascination of the unknown. I think that in my case it was a combination of these factors that determined me to try my fortune once again in the frozen south…
The stark polar lands grip the hearts of the men who have lived on them in a manner that can hardly be understood by the people who have never got outside the pale of civilisation.” – Ernest Shackleton

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