Book passages

I finished Ghosts of Cape Sabine, so I'm going to write some quotes from it here. A lot of the book was pretty boring (I agree with the person on Goodreads who said at least 100 pages should have been chopped out), but when it finally talked about the poor starving men..wow. D: Only six people out of the 25 survived (now I know who Fort Greely is named after lol, which is about an hour south of Fairbanks)

"For a further nine hours, they struggled on in darkness, guiding Elison ahead, but he kept staggering off course, his eyelids frozen together as if glued" (ouch!)

"Trudging over rough and heavy ice, they spent seventeen hours bringing the three men in. So solid were they frozen in the bag that it had to be chopped apart to release them" (and hope they don't accidentally hit you? D: Yikes)

( if you are squeamish, you probably shouldn't click on this lol )

If there's one thing I've learned from reading polar exploration books, it's that even though Robert Falcon Scott may not have been the best prepared, he had the best men on any expedition I've read about so far (Shackleton's were pretty good too, but Scott's men just stand out to me). Other expeditions were always fighting and stealing from each other and stuff, but Scott's men got along amazingly well. They seemed like amazing people, especially Wilson, Birdie and Cherry <3

( Feb. 13: Tiny )