Duke of Cambridge,David Beckham and the granddaughter of Worsley’s hero Ernest Shackleton among those offering condolences“My journey is at an end, the British explorer Henry Worsley said in an emotional dispatch to his website on Friday. “I absorb hasten out of time and endurance [through] a simple, and sheer inability to slide one ski in front of the other.”After trekking alone for 70 days and more than 900 miles across Antarctica to within an agonising 30 miles of his destination,Worsley knew he was too weak to achieve his goal of fitting the first man to cross the continent unaided, and called for rescue.
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Source: theguardian.com