Amazing to see this here! The father of my grandma (she is turning 100 next week!) was a sailor on these Antarctic missions. She still lives in the same villag

Amazing to see this here! The father of my grandma (she is turning 100 next week!) was a sailor on these Antarctic missions. She still lives in the same village where several of these sailors were from. She recently told me that more than a year after the planned end of one of these missions, they still had no news of the boat. Everyone in the village fully expected all the crew to have been dead for a long time. But then one day the great-grandpa just walked in into the village after 3 years away, like it’s nothing! The boat had been stuck in the ice and had to spend one more winter stuck in the Antarctic ice pack. At one point during that winter, food was running low, my great-grandpa and a few other pals had to row a small boat to an island 80km away to get food from a stash they left there on a previous mission 8 years prior. These days were... epic!