Beyond Endurance — or beyond a joke?

I HAD a hard time these past few weeks worrying — day in, day out — about our gallant Beyond Endurance team as they battled their way across the frozen Antarctic, dragging their meagre belongings behind them in the teeth of howling wind and suffering all manner of discomfort and danger.

Forgive my ignorance of these matters — but are there no polar bears in the south?

Your excellent regular reports told of the teams near exhaustion as they approached their destination and I began to fear they would never make it back through that bleak and hostile wilderness. Then the gloom lifted.