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A whole bookshop dedicated to polar books in Oslo. Think you would like this @Caroline2

Daria: "This story is about a group of twenty people who sailed from Britain to New Zealand and then Antarctica. I'm reading it in Russian because I'm from Moldova which is part of Eastern Europe. My husband is a mountaineer, so I'm really interested in exploring beautiful places on the planet. He's on an expedition right now on Mount Rainier. There is so much beauty to see. We shouldn't be limited. We should live in an open world."

And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and explore.

First snow day of the season means dropping whatever I've been reading and picking up some polar history. This instantly became one of my favourites. Cherry-Garrard is so immensely likeable and the story, of course, is so brutal; the combination makes the book impossible to put down (even during some long bits about penguins)

"We travelled for Science."

This book was written by the youngest member of Scott's expedition to the South Pole. He didn't go to the Pole itself (Scott was beaten there by Amundsen's Norwegian team and all members of Scott's group died on the way back), but Cherry-Garrard has lots to say about 3 years in the Antarctic. Isolation, adventure, suffering, overcoming.

Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.

This is my work accompaniment for the morning - tea and polar exploration.

"Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised."