Stephen Rodwell

“Resignation to misfortune is the only attitude, but not an easy one to adopt. It seems undeserved where plans were well laid and so nearly crowned with a first success. I cannot see that any plan would be altered if it were to do again, the margin for bad weather was ample according to all experience and this stormy December - our finest month - is a thing that the most cautious organiser might not have been prepared to encounter. It is very evil to lie here in a wet sleeping-bag and think of the pity of it all.”
― Robert Falcon Scott, Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals

“After lunch, and Evans still not appearing, we looked out, to see him still afar off. By this time we were alarmed, and all four started back on ski. I was first to reach the poor man and shocked at his appearance; he was on his knees with clothing disarranged, hands uncovered and frostbitten, and a wild look in his eyes.”
― Robert Falcon Scott, Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals

“e are in a desperate state, feet frozen &c. No fuel and a long way from food, but it would do your heart good to be in our tent, to hear our songs and the cheery conversation as to what we will do when we get to Hut Point.”
― Robert Falcon Scott, Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals

“Accept yourself: be yourself. That seems a good rule. But which self? Even the simplest of us are complicated enough.”
― Apsley Cherry-Garrard