Friday, January 20, 2012

Cold and the Common Man

I arrived at work to -2 degree temperatures and prepared for the 4 inches of snow expected today.  Then I thought about our friend Eric Larsen, Polar Explorer.  ( http://www.savethepoles.com/ ) only to find out he had been thinking of another Polar Explorer Robert F Scott.  Royal Navy Captain Robert Falcon Scott wrote, 'The Pole. Yes, but under very different circumstances from those expected. We have had a horrible day‹add to our disappointment a head wind 4 to 5, with a temperature -22°, and companions labouring on with cold feet and hands.'

Scott and his four companions had successfully reached the South Pole, but only to find that the Norwegian, Roald Amundsen, and his team had beaten him by five weeks.

100 years ago this month, the Scott Expedition reach the South Pole.  Read the story of that fated expedition and you will appreciate the technological advances we have made.

Eric is a big fan of our SPF 15 lip balms.  We are a big fan of Eric's work to save the poles. So we are preparing to go to retail with a new "polar formula" SPF lip balm and donate 5% of sales to the save the poles efforts.  Go Eric!

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