📚: The Last Viking, Stephen Bown: Quotes: Reaching the goal was anticlimatic
The moment that had dominated the desire and dreams of the men for a year and a half was strangely anticlimatic. They quietly gathered in a group —five fur-clad men on skis, with seventeen exhausted dogs and three wooden sledges— in the midst of a vast wilderness of ice and snow, the farthest possible point from any human habitation on the planet, and shook hands.
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