<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[South of Silence]]></title><description><![CDATA[South of Silence]]></description><link>https://www.southofsilencebook.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:10:22 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.southofsilencebook.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[The Architecture of the Dark: What the Light Hides]]></title><description><![CDATA[We are taught from birth to fear the dark and crave the light. We treat enlightenment as the goal and obscurity as the enemy. But after six months at the South Pole, living through a night that lasts half a year, I realized we have the metaphor backwards. Light doesn’t just show us the world; it also hides us from ourselves.]]></description><link>https://www.southofsilencebook.com/post/the-architecture-of-the-dark-what-the-light-hides</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69bea6d06e2d8139248c3ea2</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 11:54:32 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/2f7ed0_61f4f09d883941628ceccaade40c7a73~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Dale Herschlag</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[300 Degrees of Choice]]></title><description><![CDATA[When you tell people about the 300 Club, the same question always comes up: "Why would anyone do that?"

The answer is not what they expect.

It is not about proving you can handle -100°F air or a -152°F wind chill. Bragging rights and party stories are byproducts, not reasons.

The real answer is harder to explain. It's the difference between enduring what happens and stepping into something that doesn't need to happen at all.]]></description><link>https://www.southofsilencebook.com/post/300-degrees-of-choice</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69b94c6dfaed8c5e63cad982</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:28:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/2f7ed0_20614d7c847c48fabf9fd5087edd81ca~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Dale Herschlag</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Reality Hit]]></title><description><![CDATA[I thought my first days at the South Pole would be monumental. I had imagined stepping onto the ice with some sense of arrival, of accomplishment, of having crossed into something profound. I expected something meaningful, something that felt commensurate with the extremity of where I had just landed.]]></description><link>https://www.southofsilencebook.com/post/when-reality-hit</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69a82c1a2ba75494a0310381</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 13:45:44 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/2f7ed0_41048620d1fe446691421c89a9059167~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Dale Herschlag</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why I Chose the Title "South of Silence"]]></title><description><![CDATA[When I first began working on this book, I tried dozens of titles. Some were too dramatic, while others were too literal. Some tried too hard to sound literary. But there was one title I kept coming back to, one I thought would work from the beginning: Endurance: The Spirit of Survival at the South Pole.]]></description><link>https://www.southofsilencebook.com/post/why-i-chose-the-title-south-of-silence</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69a6f8a0686f0e042b4ee08d</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:05:08 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/2f7ed0_9b467c99c8254907b91cae7b96b04de0~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Dale Herschlag</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why I Wrote South of Silence]]></title><description><![CDATA[I didn't plan to write a book about Antarctica. The story found me years after I left the bottom of the world, a place where silence has more to say than noise ever could.]]></description><link>https://www.southofsilencebook.com/post/why-i-wrote-south-of-silence</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69a5953260298c02e5bf711d</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:54:58 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/2f7ed0_978091f7c1964ce188110581afd025c4~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Dale Herschlag</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>