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What to Bring to the End of the World: Part I

What to Bring to the End of the World: Part I

A Tale of Two Explorers and the Things They Carried

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Feb 07, 2025
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This is the first panel in a diptych concerning Arctic ephemera: things carried or written by the polar explorers Matthew Henson and Donald MacMillan that still speak to us across the years—and engage our chaotic, emergent moment.1

Part One: The Letter

Among the many things men once imagined they would find at the top of the world was a mountain made of ir…

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