Quote of the day
Summer afternoon — summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Roland Huntford

Born: September 4, 1927
Died: January 23, 2026 (aged 98)
Bio: Roland Huntford was an author, principally of biographies of Polar explorers. He lived 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)






