The ice men cometh; Eighty-five years after Sir Ernest Shackleton turned an Antarctic outing into a glorious epic of survival, the British Army sent a small team to explore the frozen continent. Sam Greenhill joined them for six weeks on the ice.(Features)

From: The Birmingham Post (England) | Date: January 26, 2002 | Copyright information

Byline: Sam Greenhill

There are two ways to tell the tale of the British Army Antarctic Expedition. One involves frostbite, broken bones and near-death, the other lobsters and wine.

The mission is to sail a yacht to the freezing south, leap ashore with skis, sledges and climbing equipment, and go explore.

There is a treacherous stretch of blank whiteness on charts of the Antarctic Peninsula called the Forbidden Plateau, where few have ventured and ...

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