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South Pole Race: When the Limeys Get Scurvy

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

CHAPTER

The End Cannot Be Far

They staggered on slowly and unevenly as the winter overtook them. The storage depots they had laid for their journey home didn't have food or fuel to sustain them at the slow pace they were making. Oates had an old war wound where a bullet had shattered his thigh bone. After months without vitamin sea john crandon couldn't jog for more than 50 yards. Their bodies were found months later by a t that set out from the british base.

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