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Inspire people to do the impossible

Henry Worsley explorerAn impossible trek to most, but possible to one

Henry Worsley trekked for seventy-one days and nearly eight hundred nautical miles to reach the south pole single handed in January 2016. He was inspired by Ernest Shackleton who had walked to within ninety-seven miles of his goal in 1909.

Worsley had studied every aspect of Shackleton and admired not only his courage but his leadership and of course his determination.

On January 2nd, 2016 only a day behind schedule, he reached the South Pole. He now had to continue to the Ross ice shelf so he had “crossed” Antartica. To stick to the principle of an “unaided trek” he refused to go into the base at the South Pole. “It was weird arriving here and not stopping,” he wrote in his diary, adding, “Very tempting to stay at Pole—eat and sleep.” He set up his camp nearby maintaining a self-imposed exile.

Worsley did not make the complete journey and he died in hospital of a lung disease shortly after. You can read the story “THE WHITE DARKNESS, A solitary journey across Antarctica. in the New Yorker by David Grann. Grann tells it well. Worsley raised a huge sum of money for a foundation and is now an inspiration to others. Continue reading Inspire people to do the impossible