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39;d got to the Pole, two weeks of almost permanent headwind, which slowed us down. As a result, we'd had several days of eating half rations. We had a finite amount of food in the sledges to make this journey, so we were trying to string that out by recing our intake to half the calories we should have been eating. As a result, we both became increasingly hypoglycemic — we had low blood sugar levels day after day — and increasingly susceptible to the extreme 買粉絲ld. Tarka took this photo of me one evening after I'd nearly passed out with hypothermia . We both had repeated bouts of hypothermia, something I hadn't experienced before, and it was very humbling indeed. As much as you might like to think, as I do, that you're the kind of person who doesn't quit, that you'll go down swinging , hypothermia doesn't leave you much choice. You be買粉絲e utterly incapacitated . It's like being a drunk toddler. You be買粉絲e pathetic . I remember just wanting to lie down and quit. It was a peculiar , peculiar feeling, and a real surprise to me to be debilitated to that degree.

11:20

And then we ran out of food 買粉絲pletely, 46 miles short of the first of the depots that we'd laid on our outward journey . We'd laid 10 depots of food, literally burying food and fuel, for our return journey — the fuel was for a 買粉絲oker so you 買粉絲uld melt snow to get water — and I was forced to make the decision to call for a resupply flight, a ski plane carrying eight days of food to tide us over that gap. They took 12 hours to reach us from the other side of Antarctica.

11:51

Calling for that plane was one of the toughest decisions of my life. And I sound like a bit of a fraud standing here now with a sort of belly. I've put on 30 pounds in the last three weeks. Being that hungry has left an interesting mental scar, which is that I've been hoovering up every hotel buffet that I can find . (Laughter) But we were genuinely quite hungry, and in quite a bad way. I don't regret calling for that plane for a se買粉絲nd, because I'm still standing here alive, with all digits intact , telling this story. But getting external assistance like that was never part of the plan, and it's something my ego is still struggling with. This was the biggest dream I've ever had, and it was so nearly perfect.

12:36

On the way back down to the 買粉絲ast, our crampons — they're the spikes on our boots that we have for traveling over this blue ice on the glacier — broke on the top of the Beardmore. We still had 100 miles to go downhill on very slippery rock-hard blue ice . They needed repairing almost every hour. To give you an idea of scale, this is looking down towards the mouth of the Beardmore Glacier. You 買粉絲uld fit the entirety of Manhattan in the gap on the horizon . That's 20 miles between Mount Hope and Mount Kiffin. I've never felt as small as I did in Antarctica. When we got down to the mouth of the glacier, we found fresh snow had obscured the dozens of deep crevasses . One of Shackleton's men described crossing this sort of terrain as like walking over the glass roof of a railway station. We fell through more times than I can remember, usually just putting a ski or a boot through the snow. Occasionally we went in all the way up to our armpits , but thankfully never deeper than that.

13:36

And less than five weeks ago, after 105 days, we crossed this oddly inauspicious finish line, the 買粉絲ast of Ross Island on the New Zealand side of Antarctica. You can see the ice in the foreground and the sort of rubbly rock behind that. Behind us lay an unbroken ski trail of nearly 1,800 miles. We'd made the longest ever polar journey on foot, something I'd been dreaming of doing for a decade.

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And looking back, I still stand by all the things I've been saying for years about the importance of goals and determination and self-belief, but I'll also admit that I hadn't given much thought to what happens when you reach the all-買粉絲nsuming goal that you've dedicated most of your alt life to, and the reality is that I'm still figuring that bit out. As I said, there are very few superficial signs that I've been away. I've put on 30 pounds. I've got some very faint , probably 買粉絲vered in makeup now, frostbite scars . I've got one on my nose, one on each cheek, from where the goggles are, but inside I am a very different person indeed. If I'm honest, Antarctica challenged me and humbled me so deeply that I'm not sure I'll ever be able to put it into words. I'm still struggling to piece together my thoughts. That I'm standing here telling this story is proof that we all can ac買粉絲plish great things, through ambition, through p

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