“"Oh, as usual," they shouted back; "no bottom." I mention this little incident just to show how one can grow accustomed to anything in this world.”

—  Roald Amundsen

Upon finding yet another obscured and deadly abyss
Sydpolen (The South Pole) (1912)

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