Clements Markham

As is the fact it happened at all.

And let's just mention for a moment the backer, Clements Markham, because this is the other thing.

There's the kind of the moneyed and the connected end of an expedition like this, and then there's the hoi polloi in some ways, and the scientists and others who are doing the grunt work.

But tell me more about Clements Markham and just, again, give us a sense of the...

the drive to undertake these expeditions despite them carrying such obvious challenges and risks.

Yeah, I mean, Clements Markham was absolutely key for this expedition.

And I think in awakening this real interest in Antarctica around this time.

So he had started his career as a midshipman in the Royal Navy, and he'd gone into the Arctic on an expedition that searched for the lost explorer Sir John Franklin.