Why visit the White Continent? “I lost myself by being transported into a view of such silence and purity and calm,” author Pico Iyer writes of his trip, “that I forgot all my worries and distractions and returned to my better, most quiet self.”
You don’t have to be in perfect shape to explore Antarctica. Here’s my story.
By Carolyn Spencer Brown
Antarctica can be challenging, but don’t rule it out before reading this. Journalist and avid cruiser Carolyn Spencer Brown embarked on the voyage worried that her new knee ruled out excursions. “Thanks to the power of people,” including passengers and crew who inspired her, she says, she triumphed.
Conrad Combrink, Silversea’s Head of Expeditions, has been to Antarctica more than 80 times. Why? “You never know what you’re going to find when you go,” he says. “The feelings…the emotions…that’s different every time.”
I can remember very few places, if any, as humbling and serene as Antarctica
By Pico Iyer
Pico Iyer, one of the world’s great travel writers, has been traveling for the better part of half a century, but he’d not visited Antarctica. Once there, he writes, it “reminds one of how much larger the elements are than we puny humans, and expands our sense of wonder.”
