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Disposable Heroes

Demystified by Demystified

May 12, 202144:49Society & Culture

The Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration by its very name promises a lot. Our popular conception of it seems to deliver, too - frozen heroes in big coats frozen stiff as they trudge through a blizzard, some stiff-lipped s...

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