Ooooh man, I'm getting chills just reading the intro. Last week, I finished Reinhold Messner's book "Wild" which is an excellent narration of Shakleton's (and Frank Wild's) adventures in the Antarctica. This sparked my interest in pole expeditions, and I was surprised to learn that: 1) Amundsen was not only the first person to reach the geographic south pole, but also most likely the first to reach the geographic nor…
From the article:
"Worsley read everything he could about Shackleton and other polar explorers. He was delighted to discover that Frank Worsley, a trusted member of one of Shackleton’s expeditions, was a distant relative of his, and had written his own thrilling memoir..."