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No expert, but strikingly clueless this guy was. Compared to Amundsen and Nansen. Those canvas clothes may be good for hiking in Scotland, but Amundsen was usin
by timonoko 11y ago
No expert, but strikingly clueless this guy was. Compared to Amundsen and Nansen. Those canvas clothes may be good for hiking in Scotland, but Amundsen was using proven arctic technology: double layered Reindeer clothes. Worst part was of course that Shackleton refused to eat his dead horses, which he had plenty. When I was kid in Helsinki in 1950s, we mostly ate horse meat, because it was very cheap.
- s_dev 11y agoThe man brought home all his men alive under extreme circumstances and faced impossible odds, an achievement that suggested he did have priorities in extremely good order and some wits about him. I think he was far from a clueless fool, it's just you're judging him with hindsight - we can all see there were mistakes and such a journey mistakes were inevitable but mistakes alone don't make a fool nor someone clueless.
- timonoko 11y agoOk. I also now noticed what sucky boots they had. When I was in the Finnish army, we always ordered them boots 3 sizes too big, so we could fill the emptiness with toe-rags. Sami guys were using special grass "Kenkäheinä" instead, which was better. but could not humble myself to such heathen practice. Hence can I totally sympathize with Schackleton. Amundsen humbled himself and lived years with Sami and Eskimos just to catch some essential clues. Correction: One guy was wiser, he had genuine "Pieksut"-boots on. They are little bit better than Schackleton's Royal Riding boots. https://www.google.fi/search?q=pieksut https://www.google.fi/search?q=pieksut