03-09-2022, 05:42 PM
mikebw wrote:
[quote=Paul F.]
Anyone not familiar with the Shackleton expedition, I highly recommend the book "Endurance" by Alfred Lansing.
Just be on a warm beach somewhere when you read the part when they talk about climbing into their sleeping bags, that are loaded with 30 lbs of ICE, to stay "warm"...
omg, I am dead already just reading that.
Condensation and salt spray in the small boat they took to South Georgia Island... collected on their sleeping bags, and froze. They were each more than 30lbs heavier... and they climbed in them to be "warm".
Every single man of the expedition survived. How ANY of them did is one of the most incredible tales in history.