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SouthWestZippy | 1539 comments In the Ghost Country A Lifetime Spent on the Edge by Peter Hillary
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Goodreads synopsis. "In the Antarctic summer of 1998-99, Peter Hillary and two companions skied to the South Pole - each man pulling a 440-pound sled 900 miles across some of the most forbidding country on earth. The plan was to complete the tragic journey of Captain Robert Falcon Scott, to the Pole and back. But under the pressure of a relentless media spotlight, fatal team chemistry, and food and fuel stores, the expedition fragmented into hostile isolation. Instead of completing Scott's journey, they found they were repeating it."

I lost interest going into part two, page 82, made myself finish it. Trying to keep up on who was telling the story while not liking anyone was a task itself. I am all about adventure, testing your limits and bad things happen but good grief.

What I got out of this whole book, careful who you pick to go with you when going on a journey that was not completed by another person.


Loneliness is a two-sided thing, the ones left at home while you are on adventures and dealing with your torture and loneliness were dealing with their tortures and loneliness too.


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