some journalists have described the South Pole as 'hell on earth.' Others refer to my time here as 'an ordeal.' They would be surprised to know how b….

I believe in geographic cures - they allow you to throw all your cards in the air and see where they land, then pick them back up and deal them again..

I have always been a night person. When the sun goes down, my spirits rise. I'm more alert, quicker, more in tune with the rhythms of the world..

I don't believe that life can be counted by years or days, but by experience and how you leave the world by the way you live..

I understand that it is not when or how you die but how and if you truly were ever alive..