Shackleton’s South and The Lost Men, by Kelly Tyler Lewis are also worth a look if you went digging in that expedition previously.

The Worst Journey In The World is about a different one - Scott’s doomed polar run - but it’s some of the best adventure writing there is.

“ Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised…”

Yes. Yes Cherry, it is.