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Part 5 · 6 questionsWhen the first expedition set out across the ice in the winter of 1911, few of its members had any idea of what awaited them. The diaries that survive tell a story not of heroism but of small, stubborn routines: the tea brewed at the same hour each morning, the boots mended by lamplight, the letters written to people who would not read them for months. It is these details, rather than the grand ambitions of the leaders, that make the journals so compelling today.
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1. What does the writer find most striking about the diaries?
The ambition of the expedition's leaders.
The ordinary habits they describe.
The dangers the members faced.
The time the letters took to arrive.
The writer is struck by the everyday details, not the leaders' ambitions.
