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Hill Country Outdoors Gayne C. Young, on May 20, 2020

Shackleton’s South Pole quest

He was a principal figure during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, named the 11th of the 100 Greatest Britons that ever lived, and turned the failure of what was to be his greatest expedition into one of the most epic tales of survival ever told. Pretty impressive for a guy who once claimed he

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