Quote of the day
We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist.
Roland Huntford

Born: 1927 (age 98)
Bio: Roland Huntford is an author, principally of biographies of Polar explorers. He lives in Cambridge, and was formerly Scandinavian correspondent of The Observer, also acting as their winter sports correspondent.
Known for:
- Scott and Amundsen: Last Place on Earth (1979)
- The New Totalitarians (1971)
- Shackleton (1985)
- Nansen: The Explorer as Hero (1997)






