Having established a base camp in McMurdo Sound and spent the winter of 1908 there, Ernest Shackleton headed south with three men, four ponies and supplies, butbecause of conditions in the Antarctic inland so brutal that all of the ponies died, his party ultimately failed to reach the South Pole, turning around at a then-record of a latitude of 88°23' South.
A)because of conditions in the Antarctic inland so brutal that all of the ponies died, his party ultimately failed to reach the South Pole,
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A)because of conditions in the Antarctic inland so brutal that all of the ponies died, his party ultimately failed to reach the South Pole,
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