Temperatures 6 below zero tonight and threatening to get lower later in the week. There is something so paralyzing about the intense cold - I can hardly function; all my energy comes rushing in when the sun warms me.
Yet Scott and his team went to the Antartic badly clothed by today's standards as did the early climbers on Everest yet they had both energy and enthusiasm for the task in hand. I have to wonder whether they would have been the same intrepid men in a warm environment or would they perhaps have lost energy there- we'll never know.
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