OHYAT: -77°

ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO TODAY!

Relay work for 7 1/2 hours in which we made 1 1/2 miles advance. The min. temp. for the night was -75.3°. At starting in the morning it was -70.2° At noon it was -76.8°, and at 5:15 p.m. when we camped for lunch it was -77°.

E.A. Wilson's journal

The day lives in my memory as that on which I found out that records are not worth making.

Apsley Cherry-Garrard, The Worst Journey in the World

Chicago

It really is exactly like this.