Alone in Antarctica | The Windiest Place on Earth | 1
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Alone in Antarctica | The Windiest Place on Earth | 1

It’s 1912, the golden age of Antarctic exploration, and teams from the Australasian Antarctic Expedition are preparing to journey into the wilderness. One trio, led by the Australian geologist Douglas Mawson, will venture the farthest — traversing 700 miles roundtrip of uncharted territory. But when his journey takes a disastrous turn, Mawson will have to endure what the mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary called, “The greatest survival story in the history of exploration.

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