Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.

We had not asked for any favors; we had asked for nothing that was not clearly ours by every law - human and divine.

Do people care for each other at home as we do here?

The hard earth had become the equivalent of the Home Country to me: it was safe, secure, known; but it held no attraction.

We are not sufficiently imaginative to realise what a really awful thing it is to know that there is no chance to drop into a shop and buy a little food.

The face of nature and civilization alike were wholly changed, and we three, Wilson, Bowers and I, seemed to be the only living creatures in a dead world of ice.

Exploration is the physical expression of the Intellectual Passion.

There is no such thing as a safe journey. And I think that is the joy of life.

I do not know what we should have done without our music: each night, after an hour's reading, the gramophone sang us to bed.

The Worst Journey in the World