![]() This mission required them to travel at the worst possible time of year, in the perpetual darkness and horrific cold of the Antarctic winter.Ĭherry-Garrard's survival through these condition is little short of a miracle, and as he quipped afterwards: "Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised." "The Worst Journey in the World" by Apsley Cherry-Garrard is the epic tale of the disastrous "Winter expedition" of the Author and his two companions- Henry Bowers and Dr Edward Wilson - all members of Scott's ill-fated Antarctic expedition to the South Pole, who attempted a scientific expedition in the midst of the Antarctic Winter - in the coldest temperatures found on Planet Earth.Īt the behest of the scientific establishment they went in search of some samples of fertilised but unhatched eggs of the Emperor Penguin - believed at the time to contain unknown secrets of evolutionary science. ![]()
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