A Watch Honoring an Explorer Joins His Son’s Antarctic Trip
On a sun-drenched, windswept afternoon in mid-December, as temperatures hovered well below zero, two men crossed the finish line of the 18th annual Antarctic Ice Marathon hand-in-hand, taking seventh place in the 26.2-mile run, the world’s southernmost race. One was Simon Messner, the 33-year-old son of Reinhold Messner, the legendary Italian mountaineer who was the…