Frank Hurley is arguably one of the best Antarctic Photographers of all time. I’ve known and loved his photos since the start of my infatuation with the continent, but I only recently picked up his book. Turns out he was also a wordsmith. His short account of life with Sir Ernest Shackleton aboard the Endurance showed that there was much more going on than the photos he snapped. The pages have snippets of diary entries, detailed accounts of conversations, and poems that he wr

It’s been over a month now since I’ve gotten back from the Arctic. I could have written this then but I wanted to be sure. I wanted to be sure that it was real. That I wasn’t on some post expedition high that I would dwindle down from and say “oh, it was ok”. But that has not been the case as I still can’t find the words to describe the trip. Even this blog is a futile effort. And yet it’s ONLY been a month. I can already see the ways the connections, the knowledge gained, th