Polar classification scheme sheds light on bold expeditions that never were
Last modified on Fri 30 Apr 2021 14.41 EDT “Polar exploration,” said Apsley Cherry-Garrard, the companion of Capt Robert Falcon Scott, who later found the Antarctic explorer’s body, “is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time that has yet been devised.” But while previous generations of polar travellers devised their own rules for their gruelling journeys, a new certification scheme has been launched after growing controversy over allegedly inflated claims of exploits at the Earth’s two poles. The polar expedition classification scheme [PECS], set up in Mar...
Source: theguardian.com