GOING FURTHER
OUR ADVENTURE HAD BEGUN AS most such expeditions do: with a surfeit of alcohol. At a wedding banquet in South Africa, I’d waxed lyrical about the wonders of South Georgia to Bernardo, owner of the aptly named Beagle IV, an 18-metre sailing ketch, who’d long dreamed of sailing there. After downing his 117th cocktail, he turned and slurred, ‘Let’s do it.’
Illustration ANDREA DE SANTIS @4ndreadesantis