Haha, this is great, because I've sort of been adjacent to the fandom in the sense that I see tags that are RTMI about "a melodramatic group of dudes who all die tragically" and go "maybe I should check that out...actually I think the whole point is that Imperialism Is Bad Actually and I don't really need an evil polar bar or cannibalism to tell me that????" But hard agreed on Shackleton and Mallory! And (to an extent but it's a weird one) Scott! So it sounds like I need to research Vihjalmur Stefansson pronto.

My brother semi-recently (I think this was pre-Covid) was on a road trip with a Canadian friend and came back very into Stan Rogers semi-ironically. "He's like the Drake of Canada."