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Show FASCINATION OF THE ARCTIC Sentiment of Travel and Peril That Appeals to All Who Have Rich, Red Bipod. Tho sentiment of arctic travel is closely similar to that of Alpine climbing. climb-ing. Man, with supremo audacity, by sheer strength of will and of muscle, forces himself Into nature's reserved territory, where she shows herself in her severest and most ' awesome, moods, where no mere animal dares to tread, whore no other living thing has ventured. That foreseeing, skilful skil-ful creature, man, with well-knit muscles and well-chosen companions, well supplied with special foods and well-devised ropes and tents, and other means of defying inexorable nature, na-ture, alone of all living croatures. traverses this region of desolation unharmed. Unabashed, ho plunges Into a wilderness of magnificent lifeless-nessl lifeless-nessl Ho doos not succumb! He returns re-turns to tell the Btory to his fellow-men fellow-men I Evon the Alpine climber who first scales ono of the hlthorto untrodden un-trodden peakB of Switzerland rocolvos honor and admiration from those to whom he relates his adventure. How much moro, naturally enough, Is the interest, amounting to enthusiasm, with which we hear tho explorer or read hlB book, tolling of dayB and weeks, oven of months, of struggle with tho prodigious obstacles' of Ico and Bnow, in tho endeavor to roach the remoto polar regions, north or south. The reduction of the weight of food carried to an exact minimum, the similar diminutive provision of tont and protective covering agalnBt Intolerable cold, the dally strugglo of the monotonous march over measure less snow fields, the faot that each day's progress reduces tho probability of over returning, excite wondor, pity, oven horror, while tho determination, foresight, and well-balancod calculation calcula-tion of means to end and of tho dividing di-viding lino botwoen pluck and fool-hardiness, fool-hardiness, fill ub with admiration and respect for the leader. |