This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!

John Muir
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This time it is real — all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death! This quote is from Alfred Lord Tennyson, one of the most well-known poets to ever come out of England. The quote was written in the year 1869, and it describes the final moments of Sir John Franklin's life. Sir John Franklin was one of the famous polar explorers of the late 1800s. He was quite wealthy and married to Lady Jane Franklin.

The couple had four sons and two daughters, but only their second son, Lieutenant William Hutchinson Close Franklin, would grow to be an explorer himself. Sir John was one of the men who accompanied Captain James Clark Ross on his voyage to Antarctica in 1841.

Source: My First Summer In The Sierra

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