> In this national park, the only way to visit is via livestreaming drones http://t.co/UxyXanyIin pic.twitter.com/axcLnV1Rvv [http://t.co/axcLnV1Rvv] — Co.Exist (@FastCoExist) January 13, 2015 [https://twitter.com/FastCoExist/status/554865582903132160] Here's a pointer to an application for drones both interesting…
> Blimey. A friend of my mum's has a copy of The Worst journey in the World signed by two of Scott's men pic.twitter.com/gHTUwiZMOU [http://t.co/gHTUwiZMOU] — Ben Saunders (@polarben) March 29, 2014 [https://twitter.com/polarben/statuses/450040276049219584]…
The Writer's Almanac [http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2014/03/29] reports that today is the anniversary of the last entry in Robert Falcon Scott's diary. Writer's Almanac also passes on Scott's record of his disappointment at learning that Roald…
In his TED talk yesterday [http://blog.ted.com/2014/03/20/the-hardest-105-days-of-my-life-ben-saunders-at-ted2014/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TEDBlog+%28TEDBlog%29] , Ben Saunders summed up his trip to the South Pole this way. > “This is a story of giving everything we had…
> "Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all." Sir Ernest Shackleton. — Team ITACE (@ITACE2014) March 17, 2014 [https://twitter.com/ITACE2014/statuses/445660692557729792] Team ITACE, the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Centenary Expedition, has 228 days until its polar expedition. They will 'attempt the crossing in the proposed footsteps…
> "The only true failure would be not to explore."Shackleton's historic expedition, illustrated http://t.co/ZDVpov7PNe pic.twitter.com/HXYNExKAsE [http://t.co/HXYNExKAsE] — Maria Popova (@brainpicker) February 27, 2014 [https://twitter.com/brainpicker/statuses/438826323046572032] Not exactly the Scott Expedition, but certainly in…
> @polarben [https://twitter.com/polarben] "It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist." Pierre Teilhard de Chardin — Katherine Konner (@soulboat) February 21, 2014 [https://twitter.com/soulboat/statuses/436895223386341376] You wouldn't expect a…
This is from Radiolab [http://www.radiolab.org/story/o-wind-blowing/] and not from the Scott Expedition, who kept me enthralled with their blog posts for more than 100 days, but it manages to show what Antarctica can really be like in just about a minute. I suppose I should post…