Just finished "The Last Place on Earth" by Roland Huntford.

Great read,  :thumbup :thumbup
It contrasts the Englishman Scott and the Norwegian Amundsen. A must read if you like Arctic exploration adventure tales.

The heroic martyrs that have been made of fools that suffer and return to civilization eating their moccasins, or never return. Against how well done explorations are dismissed cause they didn't suffer and only succeeded.