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Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
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Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Age: 73 †
Born: 1886
Born: January 2
Died: 1959
Died: May 18
Explorer
Zoologist
Apsley George Benet Cherry
Apsley George Benet Cherry-Garrard
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Antarctica
Polar
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And if the worst, or best, happens, and Death comes for you in the snow, he comes disguised as Sleep, and you greet him rather as a welcome friend than a gruesome foe.
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