Dawn in Antarctica

(Written Nov 2, posted Nov 7) When I visited my dad this summer, our friend, Fred Dunham, loaned me his copy of the book “The Worst Journey in the World” by Apsley Cherry-Garrard. It is record of Scott’s second (and final) expedition to Antarctica, and “Cherry” was on the trip. This is supposed to be one of the best books about the science investigations and trip to the South Pole ever written, and it is excellent. (I can’t say that it’s the best since it’s the only one I’ve even started reading.) I’m up to Chapter 6 “The First Winter”. In the first late summer to early fall that the expedition was in Antarctica, Cherry, Scott, and others were caught at Hut Point, and they stayed in Discovery Hut, which I described in an earlier post. Interestingly, I thought that they must have been miserable - cold, short of food, etc. Cherry says that they were cold and short of food. However, he loved his time there; it provided some of his fondest memories of the expedition. They had plen