Sublime

Men Wanted: For hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success.4 The ad may have been apocryphal, but the sacrifice it illustrates was not. These were the realities of exploration only a century ago: Our progress on the frontier was limi

chaque homme est un isthme ou un bras de mer, encore inexploré par lui-même, et de constater qu’il est plus facile de parcourir des milliers de miles en affrontant le froid, la tempête et les cannibales, à bord d’un navire du gouvernement, en compagnie de cinq cents hommes et jeunes gens pour vous aider, que d’explorer sa mer privée, les océans Atl

“Below forty degrees latitude, there is no law,” a sailors’ adage went. “Below fifty degrees, there is no God.”

Undeterred by failure, Shackleton would later make further expeditions to the South Pole. For decades, a story (later debunked) circulated that he had placed the following ad in the London Times:

Yet even as he’d cinched the noose, he’d known that the vessel that carried the hope of validating his fondest dreams was en route to San Francisco—and then to the pole. The interview he gave for the New York Herald was the last public utterance August Petermann ever made.

the largest longship ever found—thirty-two metres long, with a single-watch crew of eighty that could have been doubled for war. Dating to the early eleventh century, it is of the dimensions the sagas give for the highest rank of royal warships.

In anticipation of their first open-sea journey, they spent the rest of the day, and much of the night, patching the hulls, repairing the rigging, redistributing goods, packing snow into the boats, and jettisoning their last ounces of unnecessary things. In his tent that night, De Long wrote, “I hope for good weather tomorrow, when, with God’s bles

Car l’essentiel est fait : il a prouvé qu’en poursuivant toujours dans la même direction, que ce soit du côté où le soleil se lève ou du côté opposé, on doit revenir au point d’où l’on est parti. Ce que les savants supposaient depuis des milliers d’années est devenu, grâce au courage d’un individu, une certitude : la terre est ronde et voici un hom

Now take a piece of easily formed aluminum from Home Depot and attach it to the hull over the outside damaged area using self-tapping screws. I’ve used cardboard. Conform this to the hull shape the best you can, be artistic. Leave it and move to the inside where you have also cleaned the damaged area with your grinder and sterilized the wound with