Frozen in time.(Features) From: Daily Post (Liverpool, England) | Date: September 24, 2005 | COPYRIGHT 2005 MGN Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

DESPITE the many remarkable achievements of Britons throughout the years it is our glorious failures that capture thepublic's imagination. We tell and retell Captain Scott's fatal mistakes, wax lyrical about Mallory's demise and celebrate the ill-fated Charge of the Light Brigade rather than glorify our successes.

What seems to attract us in all of these failures is the incredible courage and endurance of these men facing certain death for no ultimate gain.

And in a special one-off drama documentary S4C investigates a killer Arctic misadventure that should be added to ...

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