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pookel posted:You'll never convince me the guys from Alive didn't have the right perspective on how to handle winter starvation scenarios. The Piers Paul Read book about the Andes crash is a really great read. A plays up the Catholic aspect but I think that was what the survivors wanted, especially in the early years. They were ashamed of eating human flesh and embarrassed about being asked about it. The Christian aspect (flesh = eucharist) was a comforting slant on what they had done. I don't know how many of them were believing Catholics (though they went to a Catholic school) but the Catholic perspective of the book - the first one - was sympathetic and likely to have been well received in S. America. pookel posted:I think the thing about Cherry-Garrard that makes him a great read, but not a 100% accurate source, is that you can tell how deeply he admired Scott and cared about his fellow expedition members. He doesn't want to speak ill of the dead, so he glosses over anything that makes them look bad. But he extends the same kindness to everyone, not just Scott - iirc, he was always respectful in writing about Amundsen's expedition as well. CG also campaigned against fox hunting with horse and hound, so I think he was very sensitive to the suffering of others. Readers really do warm to CG even if they are critical of the Scott expedition. E: Has anyone read The Lost Men - about the Ross Sea party on Shackleton's 2nd expedition? It looks good but I haven't read it. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lost-Men-H...HTN4N8EVC5YRDFM Josef K. Sourdust fucked around with this message at 11:34 on Jan 12, 2017 |
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Josef K. Sourdust posted:The Piers Paul Read book about the Andes crash is a really great read. A plays up the Catholic aspect but I think that was what the survivors wanted, especially in the early years. They were ashamed of eating human flesh and embarrassed about being asked about it. The Christian aspect (flesh = eucharist) was a comforting slant on what they had done. I don't know how many of them were believing Catholics (though they went to a Catholic school) but the Catholic perspective of the book - the first one - was sympathetic and likely to have been well received in S. America. The Lost Men is sitting on my Kindle, but I haven't gotten into it. There's three feet of snow in my yard right now and predicted highs are below 0F (so -20C or so), and somehow polar survival stuff isn't super appealing right now.
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A good documentary on avalanches: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKctL_q2oSY
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