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They talk of chattering teeth: but when your body chatters you may call yourself cold.
The day’s march was bliss compared to the night’s rest, and both were awful.
If you want a good polar traveller get a man without too much muscle, with good physical tone, and let his mind be on wires — of steel. And if you can’t get both, sacrifice physique and bank on will.
I leave Cape Evans with no regret: I never want to see the place again. The pleasant memories are all swallowed up in the bad ones.12
