The characters are sketched in nicely, especially Jack, who isn’t entirely likable, but is certainly relatable. The pole marks a spot that makes Jack uneasy, but the men are determined and they build their own cabin and keep the pole. There is a pole here in front of the remnant of a cabin a pole from which dead bears hung to dry, to discourage the curiosity of other bears. Their plans go further awry when they pick a particularly inhospitable camp site, a former mine with a bad reputation. Family duties mean he must withdraw from the expedition, so the five-man team becomes four. This would be his great adventure, his chance to redirect his life’s trajectory.Īlmost immediately the expedition runs into trouble when Teddy, their photographer and medic, loses his father. Unable to raise the money to go to one of the better universities for physics, as he had planned, he consequently acquired a job as a clerk. This is the lucky stroke our narrator, Jack, has been waiting for. They need someone to man the wireless, to send reports of their work to the authorities, also to keep the newspapers up to date on their doings. In 1937 four British university men create an expedition to gauge weather conditions at Gruhuken, near the North Pole. Men going mad from the dark and the loneliness, murdering each other, shooting themselves.
The stories they tell of that time! Marauding bears. It was not the result of some phobic disorder. However I know enough to be convinced that something terrible took place. I don’t think we will ever learn the truth of what happened at Gruhauken. To day’s Countdown to Hallowe’en review is a creepy ghost story based around an expedition to the North Pole – you have been warned! Over to Randy…
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