Half-Starved, Three-Quarters Crazy: How Two Explorers Survived Alone in Northern Greenland in 1911-12 » Explorersweb
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Half-Starved, Three-Quarters Crazy: How Two Explorers Survived Alone in Northern Greenland in 1911-12 » Explorersweb
Exploration stories are rife with extreme deprivation, both physical and mental. "Sexually and socially, the polar explorer must make up his mind to be starved," wrote British polar explorer Apsley Cherry-Garrard, recalling the isolation he experienced in the Antarctic. But few explorers endured what Ejnar Mikkelsen and Iver Iversen did. These two Danes, abandoned by their ship, spent two winters in a tiny hut in northern Greenland. They emerged…
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