Who is the third who walks always beside you?

Eliot wrote that about Lawrence Oates, the explorer who proved to be a parfait knight in disguise during an ill-fated expedition to the Antarctic. Food supplies had run dangerously low, and Oates saw a possible solution. Saying, I am going out and will not be back for a while, he put on his coat and disappeared into the vast silence of Antarctica. He was never found

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First Published: Jun 07 1997 | 12:00 AM IST

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