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Paul Larsen, the world’s fastest man under sail was part of the 800 mile world’s slowest sail.
Just by coincidence, my son gifted me at Christmas with the audio book of “Endurance.” I had read it years ago, but even today it is positively harrowing just to listen to that telling of the story. At each stage — frozen in the ice, in tents on the floes, nearly freezing to death on the trip to Elephant Island, making the 800-mile trip in the James Cairn by the narrowest of margins, getting ashore, and finally crossing the island just before a storm — the odds were tens or hundreds to one. But they made it. A great read and an even better listen.