Cherry (2007)
“He was experiencing a breakdown, its physical symptoms including fainting fits and depression so crushing that some days he could barely get up. Dimitri, by contrast, staged a miraculous recovery. ‘It is sad,’ Cherry wrote, ‘that he has really been shamming ill . . . He just hasn’t got the guts.’28As the Western Mountains shrank into the polar night, Cherry started hearing bells, and ‘hardly cared what happened’. Atch diagnosed heart strain. Whatever was wrong with him, Cherry was definitely to...o ill to be considered for a final sledge journey to look for the polar party. A note of foreboding entered his journal as he waited for news, although he kept telling himself that he had no reason to be especially anxious about his friends: according to Scott’s schedule they were not expected for some days. The men’s marches during the first fortnight on the Plateau had been excellent, and they had caught up with Shackleton’s dates before the last five struck out alone. Scott himself was confident.MoreLess
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