HOW TO SEE ANTARCTICA (and feel good about it)
It’s a challenge that tortures even the most experienced of writers: how does one adequately convey the wonder of the white continent? Environmental historian Stephen J. Pyne has long been on record as saying that anyone tackling Antarctica must first ‘develop a vocabulary equal to their environment’, while Damian Perry, managing director of Hurtigruten says, “If you know how to describe Antarctica, then you’ve never been.” He explains: “It’s as though the awe of what you’re seeing leaves you dumbstruck.”
Success for writers lies not in cursory paragraphs about a ‘vast landscape of grandiose ice-scapes’ or ‘crunching snow beneath crystalline skies’, but by tapping into
