Tom Crean: Unsung Hero of the Scott and Shackleton Antarctic Expeditions

by Michael Smith

Crean was an Irishman who accompanied Robert Scott on his two attempts to reach the South Pole. Sent back from the final attempt, he wound up discovering the bodies of Scott and his two companions. In 1914, he returned to the South Pole with Sir Ernest Shackleton and survived that epic as well. Calling Crean "tough as a night in jail" is completely understating him. Wow...

--Lynn Evenson, Faculty