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EditH CRoWnE
ARV RESidEnt, RoHini ViLLAgE
38 shine
antarCtiCa is tHe
world’s windiest, coldest
and driest continent and is
considered to be a desert.
Despite all that, for edith
Crowne, “it is a place unspoilt by
humanity—and may that ever be so!
nature is in control and humans have to
fit in.”
edith decided she had to see
antarctica for herself after reading
the account of shackleton, his ship
‘endurance’ and his battle with this
frozen continent.
Having travelled to 39 countries, africa
is the only continent yet to be visited by
edith. she did a lot of travelling in the
UK, europe and asia with her husband,
as well as trekking with him in nepal.
“since my husband died in 2000 i
have been to scandinavia, around the
scottish islands, svalbard, Greenland,
iceland and right across the north east
passage to alaska. i’ve travelled on the
trans siberian railway from China and
across the Gobi Desert to Mongolia,
where i slept in a ger with a Mongolian
family. i have also visited Moscow and st
petersburg, and have travelled to peru to
Below left In rubber zodiacs Edith floated
amongst these amazing ice formations.
Below The tabular ice bergs looked as though
they had been carved with a gigantic knife.
We were able to see how
these early explorers lived…
It was amazing to see all
their equipment still lying
there, and even provisions
such as tinned food.
Edith Crowne
see Machu picchu, as well, of course, as
my three times to antarctica.”
on edith’s first antarctic trip in 2005
she went with the aim of following
ernest shackleton’s journey as he led
his men to safety after the sinking of
‘endurance’. in 2008 she was off to the
ross sea to visit the historic huts still
standing. “we stopped at Borchgrevink’s
hut at Cape adare, shackleton’s hut at
Cape royds, scott’s hut at Cape evans
and also scott’s hut at Discovery point on
ross island.”
as they were accompanied by
someone from the antarctica Heritage
trust—who held the key to each of
these huts—they had the rare privilege
of going inside what are virtual time
capsules, the contents preserved in the
icy temperatures. “we were able to see
how these early explorers lived,” edith
said. “it was amazing to see all their
equipment still lying there, and even
provisions such as tinned food.”