David Grann has a 21,000-word article about an expedition across Antarctica in the New Yorker

[Dick Whitman]

I would read David Grann writing about my neighbor venturing to the end of the driveway to get his mail, so here’s the link.

The White Darkness: A Journey Across Antarctica | The New Yorker

 

[Songbird]

The thread title reminded me of a Bennington College grad, Luke Mogelson, who reported a great piece about life or death boat rides to Christmas Island.

The Impossible Refugee Boat Lift to Christmas Island

Mogelson always seems to put himself in the line of fire to report his pieces.

 

[The Big Ragu]

I read this over the weekend. It was a fantastic story. I don't want to spoil it. I knew nothing about Henry Worsley and his feats, but the story really gripped me.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

I'd just been reading about Worsley in "Endure: Mind, Body and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance." That Grann piece was fantastic. I wonder if he might expand it into a full-fledged biography.

 

[Corky Ramirez up on 94th St.]

I just started this recently myself. One of the longest stories I remember seeing in the New Yorker. Seems fascinating so far, and I love these early Antarctic expeditions by the British and Irish (including Tom Crean, who is my avatar picture).

 

[YankeeFan]

I would read David Grann writing about my neighbor venturing to the end of the driveway to get his mail, so here’s the link.

The White Darkness: A Journey Across Antarctica | The New Yorker

I'll never understand why magazines like the New Yorker give away this content for free.

It's completely original. You're not going to read it anywhere else. This isn't the gamer from last nights Met's game, that folks can read in 100 other places.

So, why do they do it?

 

[Buck]

The Mets played last night?

 

[Moderator1]

No, the Met's did

 

[Azrael]

So, why do they do it?

To remind people why they should subscribe to the New Yorker.

The print version of the story has been in homes for over a week. The online version has been getting huge play on Twitter and Facebook.

I think you have to give a few of these away every year to grow your audience.

 

[britwrit]

I'll never understand why magazines like the New Yorker give away this content for free.

It's completely original. You're not going to read it anywhere else. This isn't the gamer from last nights Met's game, that folks can read in 100 other places.

So, why do they do it?

To make subscribers feel even more guilty about that pile of unread New Yorkers in their living room

I have the issue sitting on the desk right in front of me. Until now, I had no idea this article existed.

 

[YankeeFan]

No, the Met's did

Tough crowd.

 

[Alma]

I'll never understand why magazines like the New Yorker give away this content for free.

It's completely original. You're not going to read it anywhere else. This isn't the gamer from last nights Met's game, that folks can read in 100 other places.

So, why do they do it?

To brag.

I guarantee you the presentation of this piece is better online than it is in the magazine, unless the magazine came with special audio inserts.

 

[Alma]

The piece is very long, but gripping, and will make a terrific movie.

 

[CD Boogie]

To make subscribers feel even more guilty about that pile of unread New Yorkers in their living room

I have the issue sitting on the desk right in front of me. Until now, I had no idea this article existed.

I just signed up for the New Yorker digital edition this week for $8.99 a month. Hoping it will be the best of both worlds in getting all the content you’d get in print without the pile of unread or half read issues stacked next to my bed.

 

[Moderator1]

Tough crowd.

You know we love to rag you

 

[Neutral Corner]

I first read Alfred Lansing's Shackleton biography "Endurance" when I was twelve or thirteen. These stories fill me with awe and appreciation of the human spirit. I find it difficult to believe that I personally could ever accomplish what these men did, and I hope that I am never put into a position where I am forced to find out.

Lovely writing, and an amazing subject.

 

[Slacker]

I don't get the attraction to multiple treks across Antarctica. Sub-zero temps and 50-mph winds? Holy ****, pure torture.

Great story, though. Had to be hard on his wife and kids when he was away so often and risking death every day.

 

[Dick Whitman]

I don't get the attraction to multiple treks across Antarctica. Sub-zero temps and 50-mph winds? Holy ****, pure torture.

Great story, though. Had to be hard on his wife and kids when he was away so often and risking death every day.

That’s how it is with climber stories, too. I guess the spouses know what they are getting into, but still.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

I don't get the attraction to multiple treks across Antarctica. Sub-zero temps and 50-mph winds? Holy ****, pure torture.

Yeah, but no bugs, snakes or large predators which might eat you.

 

[Neutral Corner]

Just crevasses to swallow you after one missed step.