Lost in the Antarctic_The Doomed Voyage of the Endurance by Tod Olson

Author:Tod Olson [Olson, Tod]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2018-02-15T05:00:00+00:00

But the Adélie slaughter hardly meant a life of luxury for the hunters. Burning 20 penguin skins a day, they had fuel for 15 days. And the meat—two or three pounds per bird—wouldn’t feed 28 men for long. McNish sat with his diary that night and grumbled about their meager provisions. They celebrated the butchery with “stewed penguin heart, liver, eyes, tongues, toes and God knows what else,” he wrote. “I don’t think any of us will have nightmares from over-eating.”

March dawned cold, damp, and calm. Winter was bearing down again, and the weather ruled the daily routine. The hardship was relentless. When they relieved themselves in the snow, they wiped themselves with ice. Their eyes teared constantly in the wind. The tears froze into icicles at the tip of the nose, and when they swiped the ice away, pieces of skin came off with it. To wash with water meant risking frostbite. It had been four months since anyone had taken a bath, and no one had a change of clothes left.

The only relief from the cold was to crawl inside a sleeping bag and stay there—and that’s what most of the men did, from six at night to eight in the morning. The boredom grew nearly intolerable. The only topic of conversation that drew any interest at all was the wind. Every other subject had been covered a hundred times over. “The monotony of life here is getting on our nerves,” Greenstreet wrote. “Nothing to do, nowhere to walk, no change in surrounding, food or anything. God send us open water soon or we shall go balmy.”

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