[at-l] REALLY long distance hiking

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In a message dated 4/14/2003 5:34:01 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
hudsom@us.ibm.com writes:


> OTH, how much of a factor was it when Amundsen was out in exactly the
> same time frame and had much less of a problem.
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      Amundsen just dashed out from in front of the onset of the extreme
cold. Scott arrived at the pole 33 days after Amundsen. He then struggled on
the return. Amundsen probably arrived safely at his base camp just as the
worst of it settled in on Scott...