“As a rule when a sea wets a sailor through he swears at it comprehensively, and impartially curses everything in sight beginning with the ship & ‘the old man’—if he’s not within hearing, but on this trip we said nothing when a sea hit us in the face. It was grin & bear it, for it was Sir Ernest’s theory that by keeping our tempers… we each helped to keep one another up. We all lived up to this to the best of our ability, but McCarthy was a marvel.”

— Frank Worsley