"Oh, I guess it's because I proved I'm as human as everybody else, unfortunately. We were trying to make the best decisions we could as a team and we basically left the final decision just a little bit too late and, for safety's sake, the best decision was to come back here to McMurdo. We had thought we could continue on and maybe land on one of the basins over on the Arctic peninsular, but when you are 10 hours away, the weather over there can be very, very fickle and you wouldn't want to wind up in that part of the world with low fuel, so the only real safe option was to come back here." Source: Australian aviation adventurer Jon Johanson, speaking to Australia's ABC Network from Antarctica. After becoming the first person ever to cross the South Pole in a homeb