"Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.
As men will compare the hardships of France, Palestine, or Mesopotamia,.
It is more lonely than London, more secluded than any monastery, and the post comes but once a year.
It is the only form of adventure in which you put on your clothes at Michaelmas and keep them on until Christmas, and, save for a layer of the natural grease of the body, find them as clean as though they were new. "Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised