2013: Year in Review by National Geographic. Part 2/3

Where would we be without failure? Hannah Bloch takes up this existential question in the September issue of National Geographic, examining the necessary flip side of success. “Failure”, writes Bloch, “is the specter that hovers over every attempt at exploration. Yet without the sting of failure to spur us to reassess and rethink, progress would be impossible”. Famous failures abound, including that of explorer Robert Peary, seen here in 1909 peering over Arctic ice on his third try to reach the North Pole. “Even at their most miserable,” writes Bloch, “failures provide information to help us do things differently next time”. (Photo by Robert E. Peary/National Geographic)
2013: Year in Review by National Geographic. Part 2/3
   
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