"And you, you will come too, young brother, for the days pass, and never return, and the South still waits for you.  Take the Adventure, heed the

call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes!"  The Sea Rat, The Wind in the Willows.

"Whatever remains to man unknown in this world of ours, is by so much a burden on the spirits of all men"  Roald Amundsen

"Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has ever been devised"  Apsley Cherry-Gerrard

"Antarctic exploration is seldom as bad as you imagine, seldom as bad as it sounds.  But this journey had beggared our language; no words could

express its horror."  Apsley Cherry-Gerrard

"At times, during the long hours of steady tramping across the trackless snow-fileds, one's thoughts flow in a clear and limpid stream..."  Sir

Douglas Mawson

"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome"  Samual Johnson

"The stillness in the Antarctic is more profound and can be heard and felt more clearly than almost all other sounds"  Erlig Kagge

"We couldn't be further from civilization, but life couldn't be more civilised" and "Are we there yet?"  David Sinclair, Greenland Crossing 2005