ABSTRACT
The journeys with a purpose of exploring the regions covered by the eternal polar ice have [...] always been considered prestigious and pure. This is partly due to the white fields of snow and the amazing light phenomena in the sky, but it is also because of the pure, unsoiled idealism motivating these expeditions. Except for the journeys made by hunters and fishermen (though polar research owes much to these journeys as well), we can be fully convinced of the fact that even a hopeless dreamer has never travelled to the polar glaciers in pursuit of money and wealth.
