ETHOS
Overview | Ethos | Science | Exploration | Mountaineering
"Personal Development - considering the past and grasping the future”
Expeditions are about discovery, developing and learning. To find out more read on .........
Murray Levick was a visionary who had been a member of Captain Scott’s last expedition to the South Pole. Together with 5 other men, calling themselves the Northern Levick, they landed by ship with 6 weeks rations to conduct a 2 week geological investigation. It was not anticipated that the ship would have trouble picking them up as arranged in February but the Terra Nova could not reach them due to heavy pack ice. With the harsh Antarctic winter approaching The Northern Party was forced to dig a small 12 foot by 9 foot ice cave, there they spent the next 7 months in unimaginably miserable conditions, they eked out their rations by killing scarce seal and penguins for meat. With the return of spring they walked dragging their sledge to the safety of Cape Evans over 200 miles away. After nearly 6 weeks they reached safety. Murray Levick went on to found BSES and in 1932 they ran their first expedition to Finland. Today his legacy of personal development through adventure and scientific research underpins BSES expeditions. We hope we don’t get stuck in Greenland for quite so long but you will have lots of opportunities to challenge yourself. So if you like our ethos and are interested why not contact the BSES office for information on the next expedition.
"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, Whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; Who strives valiantly; Who errs, Who comes short again and again, Because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; But who does actually strive to do the deeds; Who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; Who spends himself in a worthy cause; Who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, And who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat". Theodore Roosevelt
