Don’t try to be Kennedy.

  • fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc
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    18 days ago

    Trichinosis is rumoured to be “what done for” the franklin expedition to find the north west passage.

    The Jens Monk expedition lost 62 men to Trichinosis, and returned home with only 3 men alive.

    https://canadiangeographic.ca/articles/jens-munk-an-expedition-ahead-of-its-time/

    I love reading about these guys, just so courageous. I’m sat here looking at spreadsheets worrying about emails. These guys did the equivalent of flying to mars in a washing machine, battling ferocious martians, succumbing to a war of attrition against a mysterious ailment, before un-dying and coming back home.