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> The men were completely unprepared for a land expedition, and set up camp on the uninhabited White Island in the Svalbard archipelago. There, the Arctic winte
by mongol 4y ago
> The men were completely unprepared for a land expedition, and set up camp on the uninhabited White Island in the Svalbard archipelago. There, the Arctic winter eventually consumed them and they perished in the unforgiving environment of ice and howling winds.
Actually, the struggle to get off the ice onto land was the main challenge, and they died soon after, before the winter even began.
- mannykannot 4y agoA log of their journey was recovered, which makes clear how, having put themselves in this predicament, they tackled its many hardships and setbacks with a level-headed determination and fortitude resembling that of Shackleton and his party a year or so later. Edit: Shackleton's expedition departed 17 years later.