harmonica
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..the Scott and Amundsen South Pole journeys were approximately 1800 miles total!
traveling over very rough surface, sometimes uphill...cold weather...sometimes pulling and pushing sleds
..then you have the Lewis and Clark/etc explorers...no high tech gear/weather/food
no hotels with hot baths ....canoeing or horseback/etc--not easy at all..no stoves/AC
..when I was in the USMC, we slept wherever and humped [ hiked ] many miles with heavy loads...just sleeping outdoors would ''wear me out'' ....
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yet people today complain and cry when the weather is below 30 and they have to walk a few feet to their car...or if they have to walk a few extra yards in the parking lot....
..obviously the ''old'' worlders were much tougher
....same with the Greatest Generation....my dad endured the Frozen Chosin in the Korean War where it got down to 30 below--non-wind chill!!.....he would sleep on our back porch without AC when it felt like a sauna .....I could sleep in the cold, but never in that heat....we didn't have AC till I was about 10 or so
...any other feats of human endurance please post
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traveling over very rough surface, sometimes uphill...cold weather...sometimes pulling and pushing sleds
..then you have the Lewis and Clark/etc explorers...no high tech gear/weather/food
no hotels with hot baths ....canoeing or horseback/etc--not easy at all..no stoves/AC
..when I was in the USMC, we slept wherever and humped [ hiked ] many miles with heavy loads...just sleeping outdoors would ''wear me out'' ....
..
yet people today complain and cry when the weather is below 30 and they have to walk a few feet to their car...or if they have to walk a few extra yards in the parking lot....
..obviously the ''old'' worlders were much tougher
....same with the Greatest Generation....my dad endured the Frozen Chosin in the Korean War where it got down to 30 below--non-wind chill!!.....he would sleep on our back porch without AC when it felt like a sauna .....I could sleep in the cold, but never in that heat....we didn't have AC till I was about 10 or so
...any other feats of human endurance please post
...