What do you know about failure?



Polarist Douglas Mousson and two of his colleagues were returning to the base in Antarctica after a long expedition. On December 14, 1912, a tragedy occurred - one of Mousson's colleagues failed in a crack and died. Together with him, the stall failed, which contained most of the supplies and a tent. To the base scientists had to go almost 500 km. The situation was complicated by the fact that the temperature did not rise above -20 ° C and the strong wind did not stop.

Due to a shortage of food, Moson and Merz had to eat the meat of the surviving dogs, and the sanes to drag on their own.

Three weeks later, on January 8, 1912, Merz died, and Moson continued his journey alone. He had to get rid of almost everything to ease the san.

A few days before the end of the journey, the polar failed to crack in the ice, but managed to escape. When Moson managed to get to the base, it turned out that the ship "Aurora", on which he was supposed to sail home, departed 5 hours ago!