I keep using the term "magical" but I fail to find words that are more appropriate. It is something to be experienced. And once you have that experience, you are hooked.

South Georgia was a stop enroute to the Far Side of Antarctica but it should perhaps, be a destination on its own: so much history and beauty in one place. In sharp contrast to the natural beauty of South Georgia were the rusting whaling stations scattered and crumbling beneath the towering mountain peaks. These were the very peaks that provided Sir Earnest Shackleton with the final challenge on his epic "Endurance" trek to save his men stranded on Elephant Island and these are also the peaks beneath which he was buried in a small, white-fenced cemetery in Gritviken. Standing beside his gravesite I felt connected with a huge chunk of history but when I read the back of his tombstone, I smiled at Robert Browning's words carved there: "I hold that a man should strive to the uttermost for his life's set prize." Words to live by. I try to do just that.