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I'm Magnetar birdie and this is on point right now in Antarctica it is still better really cold in the ferocious when the blows since it's summer there the sun shines down on the ice for 24 hours a day polar explorers call it the white darkness and somewhere across that wide expanse 2 human beings are walking across the continent call it over 80 and Louis Rudd are about a mile apart from each other hoping to become the 1st person ever to walk more than 900 miles across Antarctica solo and an aided them in 2016 another man Henry wars Lee attempted the journey he died in the trying so there are always the questions how why what drives a person to push themselves to the point where everything all pretense falls away what is it about and our ticket that fuels that kind of spiritual hunger this hour on point the story of Henry Worsley and the quest to walk across Antarctica and you can join us are you following Colin or Brady and Louis Rudd separate solo tracks across Antarctica right now have you heard the story of Henry wars' Lee would you ever have the desire the willpower and stamina to drag yourself and a sled full of surprise supplies across our southern continent 481-843-8255 that's 80423 talk you can also join us any time at on point Radio dot org or on Twitter and Facebook and on point radio and a little later this hour we will check in with one of the men now crossing Antarctica will be speaking with Collin or Brady's wife who's managing his expedition but 1st I'm joined by David Grann He's with us from Dallas Texas today he's a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine and author of the new book The white darkness it's about Henry were. Sleeze fatal 2016 expedition There's an excerpt of it at on point Radio dot org David Grann Welcome to the program thanks for me on the show your magazine piece and now this book was one of the most riveting things I have read all your logs I have extremely delighted to talk with you 1st of all just tell us a little bit about. How you got on to the story of Henry wars' Lee and his his trek to cross Antarctica on foot in 2016 so I've always been interested in polar explorers ever since I was young I used to read stories about them but I always like to read them preferably by a nice warm fire and in 2015 I came across a story that Henry Worsley a British man was setting out to do what his hero had field to do a century earlier and his hero was Ernest Shackleton and his mission was to try to trek from one side of it or to go to the other and where a Shackleton had intended to be part of a large expedition Worsley planned to do it solo unaided and unsupported and what that meant is. He would have no food caches planted along this route to forestall starvation and he would have to haul all of his supplies all of his food on a sled without the aid of dogs or kites and nobody had ever dared to do this before so I was kind of immediately drawn to the story Wow I mean so we'll talk about Shackleton more later because he figures prominently in Henry Worsley life I mean Shackleton of course most famous for a failed expedition but yeah but can you just talk me through a little bit about what it means physically when we're talking about walking more than 900 miles across Antarctica even though it's in the polar summer there I mean the conditions are extreme to say the least Yeah and I mean it is one of the greatest feats of human endurance and tests of character and understand the conditions you need to understand Antarctica which is more like visiting Mars than it is most places on earth Firstly a dart to is larger than Europe it's 5 and a half 1000000 square acres and in the winter the coaster is freeze so it doubles in size it is the windiest continent with winds reaching 100 mph regular gale force winds Henri were. Calling to be there all facing those conditions it is the coldest continent with temperatures routinely reaching minus 70 degrees Fahrenheit it is the highest continent you know people think of Antarctica's as flat but the they're actually trekking uphill most of the time in elevation and perhaps the strangest detail about Antarctica is that it is covered 98 percent of it is covered in ice which contains about 70 percent of all the fresh water on Earth and yet Antarctica is also the driest continent because there is so little precipitation. But what happens is the wind kicks up that ice and creates these white out so these men and women who have tried to do these tracks are reducing themselves almost to mules they will they wore home through these conditions for 10111215141516 hours a day hauling all their supplies facing the prospect of starvation and of course one other challenge the office which is one misstep they will plunge into Accra Vos into hitting castle I mean. The image of these individuals walking with a $300.00 pound $300.00 plus pound sled of supplies strapped to them and a harness dragging behind me describe it like a ship's anchor that they're pulling across the ice in white out conditions that are so violent and so cold that all they can do is look like stare down at their chest on the compass is that a right on their chest so that they're they just know that every step there's going south the south at least a 1st phase of the trip it's almost an unimaginable Yeah I mean one of the craziest things about these white out is that they are so dense you see all they can see is a compass but they often can't tell which way is up or down and they will fall over because they'll put their foot in the wrong direction because they're just enclosed in these fog of ice particles one polar explorer who went with Henry world z. I want to his 1st expeditions describe it as being trapped inside a ping pong ball bouncing on a boisterous ocean. Well so right now in Antarctica. And Colorado Brady are enduring those conditions and we'll hear more about about them in a little bit but but David Grann then to tell us more about Henry Worsley he died trying to make this attempt into in 2016 or make this track what drew him what was the that spiritual hunger. Or in him that made him want to walk across Antarctica Yeah I mean ever since he was young he used to read adventure stories and one day he read a book by. Ernest Shackleton and Shackleton to describe hearing the lure of little voices drawing you into the unknown and Worsley had always heard those voices and he finally and he longed to be a polar explorer finally at age 47 he set on in his 1st expedition to try to walk to the South Pole and I think he saw it as a a test of endurance test of character you know one of the things that happens in Antarctica is a perfect laboratory for human dynamics now in these latter expeditions they did solo but were seen as early expeditions when in a group and and on these group expeditions you know history started with accounts of explorers turning on each other backstabbing bickering there's even a case is a murder so we're all these is a test of leadership and I also think there is a spiritual quality to these tracks and I think as you said in the intro I mean it reduces them to their elements where their decisions involve life or death decisions it concentrates the mind I think Worsley was drawn to that and worse he talked about the paradox of antartica which is on one level you're acutely aware of your consciousness you hear every breath every step you were cognizant of and yet you are in this immense landscape in which were also aware of your in significance and I think worse it was drawn to that spiritual quality that paradox of antartica Well I actually just want to play a tiny bit of tape here about how from Henry Worsley himself on how he felt being in an Antarctica this is an audio message that he sent home via his his cell phone it was on the 67th day of his 2016 track and some of the dispatch is hard to understand but let's let's listen to it. Here. So that's Henry Worsley in 2016 on day $67.00 of his trip walking across Antarctica and he says David it feels marvelous to be here yeah and you can hear but you can hear the weakening of his voice and to some degree but toward the end of that expedition and that those solo tracks that was the hardest thing Henry had ever done I mean he had done 2 other tracks to the south for he was the only person to ever trace the 2 classic routes to the South Pole he was considered a pioneer of the possible he was a revered British officer he was somebody who had never given up who always it here to Shackleton's family motto buy insurance we conquer. And he loved and article but even though he said it was the most marvelous place you can hear it in his voice by day 67 it was taking a tremendous toll on him it was his longest hardest most punishing journey and being alone which is something he had not done before and which added so many new challenges he had to survive entirely by his own with Yeah well let's compare the frailty of the voice of worst Worsley we just heard with a video that he recorded in England before he took off on his solo expedition explaining what his morning routines would be like in Antarctica so if you were it's about my daily routine so I would be up at 7 o'clock in the morning and the 1st thing I'll do is probably saw I'd go to the loo sticking a whole different quickly facing into an away from the wind depending on which level of a blush and you are undertaking like I said back in the tent on the cookie goes straight into melting snow in my 5 youth a kettle which will produce water which will cook my porridge and will also fill my 2 thumbs laws for my drinking. Liquids during the day well that's Henley Henry Worsley in a video he recorded in England a well before he began his ill fated Antarctic expedition in 2016 we'll talk more about what happened towards Lee We'll talk more about his hero Ernest Shackleton and we will check in with the 2 tracks that are going on right now in Antarctica call into a Brady and Louis Rudd trying to walk across that icy continent 180-423-8255 that's 80423 talk would you have the stamina the fortitude the desire to push yourself to cast all pretense to walk across Antarctica What's your question for those who undertake such a quest where at 8438255 a mega Chakrabarti this is one point. 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This is on point i magnetrons Robertie We're talking this hour with David Grann He's staff writer for The New Yorker magazine and author of the new book The white darkness it is about the 2016 expedition that Henry Horsley undertook to walk more than 900 miles walk solo and an aided across Antarctica and we want to hear from you What's your question for those who would undertake such a quest and what is it about Antarctica and its white darkness as David grand book title tells us what is it about that continent that produces this spiritual hunger for exploration where 143855 that's 80423 talk David So so let's go way back in time here because Henry Worsley was inspired by Ernest Shackleton and 1st of all wordly has a family connection to to that great 20th century British explorer Henry was thrilled to discover that one of his distant relatives had been a member of probably Shackleton supposed famous expedition the endurance expedition Ok and that the endurance expedition was in the 1900 teens right now yes that is correct early 20th century 514 is when they set out Ok but Shackleton's early experience on the Antarctic we have a little bit of tape here from Shackleton in 1909 recounting his Antarctic expedition which he undertook with actually known the Robert Scott one was even earlier than that so we'll get to that there's a lot of room journeys here but this is Shackleton talking about his 1009 and arctic expedition and explaining why he and his team had to turn back just before reaching the South Pole. It is very very. Very. Very very very. Very very sad. Well you very. Very. So that was Ernest Shackleton in $1009.00 saying how on one of his journeys to the South Pole they had to stop within 97 nautical miles of the pole and the only thing that stopped them was lacking 50 pounds of food so so David Grant 1st of all tell us about Shackleton himself what was his early experience in Antarctica. As Shackleton is revered as one of the greatest leaders such as of polar exploration but in general he's often studies but in many ways he was a failure which is what I think makes him so interesting in 1000 know one he had hoped to reach the South Pole Robert Falcon Scott to be the 1st party but starving . Frost been suffering from scurvy they were forced to turn back then he imbarked on his own expedition hoping to reach the South Pole and you played that tape which is just incredible to hear and they got within 97 nautical miles of the South Pole and they had they were depleted he knew at that point he could actually reach the South Pole and become the 1st person to ever do saw but to but he would have to deplete a lot of his food he was worried about the welfare of his men and so he made this anguishing decision which was to turn back only set 97 miles from the pole when he got back to England he didn't discuss his failure but he said to his wife just one line it's a line that had 2 words he would later repeat and he said to his wife better alive donkey than a deadline that really captures part of Shackleton's ether those and then of course he embarked on a later Expedition 1914 hoping to trek across Antarctica but his ship the in durance got frozen in the ice. And sank and Shackleton found himself strained on an ice floe more than a 1000 miles from the closest inhabited island he did not have a radio to signal for help and he had to figure out a way to get all of his men back to safety and incredibly I mean it really is one of the greatest survival stories in history through his powers of a Durance and through his uncanny leadership he managed to get them all back and rescue them alive also we did talk about this for a 2nd because for a while history sort of relegated Shackleton to the status of failure because he didn't you know succeed. Succeed in that that particular Antarctic voyage but his his his story is one of wild success against almost insurmountable odds right because