The Most Terrible Polar Exploration Ever: Douglas Mawson's Antarctic Journey | Past Imperfect

The Most Terrible Polar Exploration Ever: Douglas Mawson's Antarctic Journey | Past Imperfect: Cherry-Garrard survived to write an account of his adventures, a book he titled The Worst Journey in the World. But even his Antarctic trek—made in total darkness in the depths of the Southern winter—was not quite so appalling as the desperate march faced one year later by the Australian explorer Douglas Mawson. Mawson’s journey has gone down in the annals of polar exploration as probably the most terrible ever undertaken in Antarctica.