In her latest book, The Quickening, the Pulitzer Prize finalist embarked on an epic odyssey to one of the most important – and least-explored – places in the world.
, chronicles this historic voyage to Thwaites' calving edge – a frigid, far-flung place never-before visited by humans.Rush sat down with BBC Travel to discuss her Antarctic odyssey, how it changed her perception of the world and the ethics around travelling to some of the Earth's most fragile ecosystems.Thwaites Glacier is this really enigmatic place in Antarctica. It's in the far reaches of the Amundsen Sea. It was a four-day journey to the nearest research base.
I remember talking to a guy named Jack who was a cook on the vessel. He's from New Orleans, and he signed up to be a cook on this expedition to help better take care of his grandfather financially. His grandfather died a couple weeks before we were to set sail and Jack still came. He had never been on a plane. He went on three different flights to get from New Orleans to Punta Arenas, [Chile], where we set sail. He'd never been on a ship. He'd never seen penguins.
I can say strongly that in the context of casual tourism, I don't think we should go to Antarctica. I don't think that cruise ships should go there. I don't think that casual tourism to these places that feel"untouched" or remote should be a thing that accelerates. But there's some part of me that wrestles a little bit at the distinction between remote and closed, or untouched and touched.
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