Life isn’t always leisure and fun, especially when your duty is shoveling snow and you live in Antarctica, or cooking a pot of gruel for dinner. The Arctic Traveler’s work ethic is firm as ice. I would even suggest his work ethic is chiseled from an icicle, compressed with the forward pressure of one thousand glaciers, and determined like a glacier.

One such traveler that comes to mind is Sir Ernest Shackleton. Shackleton’s ship ‘Endurance’ literally was compressed by ice, until it gave out and the ice flows forced the crew into small rescue boats. Only by divine providence did they survive. Through Shackleton’s resolute leadership these men escaped via granite Elephant Island and the interminable South Georgia Island. Today these dangerous voyages are made much safer through computers and graphs.