Riding the Ice Wind: By Kite and Sledge across Antarctica

ISBN-13: 9781848853065 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 272 str.

Alastair Vere Nicoll;Bear Grylls

Opis

Leaving the security of friends, work, and a wife, Alastair Vere Nicoll joined a team of young men to harness the katabatic winds and haul and kite-surf across Antarctica: the coldest, windiest, most violent continent on earth. Not since Shackleton nearly perished attempting the same thing in his Endurance expedition had such a crossing been attempted. This is the story not only of the first West-to-East traverse of the continent of Antarctica, but of the crossing of two phases in the author's life--from youth into manhood, fantasy into reality. It is also the story of a race against time, as he fought to get home for the birth of his first child. As Alastair battled through the freezing wastes, exploring the earth's wildest continent and his deepest self, he was haunted by the ghosts of past explorers and by the question of what it is to be a "modern man."

Spis treści

Foreword by Bear Grylls Introduction Chapter 1: Beginnings Chapter 2: Flaubert’s Parrot Chapter 3: A New Life Chapter 4: Altered Reality Chapter 5: Constructing the Creature Chapter 6: There but still Nowhere Chapter 7: Family Matters Chapter 8: Fly on my Wind Chapter 9: A New Horizon Chapter 10: The Icefall Chapter 11: The Layer Cake Chapters 12: Down and Out Chapter 13: Silence Valley Chapter 14: The Sword of Damocles Chapter 15: Difficult Decisions Chapters 16: It’s all in the Mind Chapter 17: Uncontactable Chapter 18: Divide and Rule Chapters 19: Heat Miser Chapter 20: Travelling without Moving Chapter 21: The South Pole Chapters 22: Leaving the End of the Earth Chapter 23: North Chapter 24: The Winds of Change Chapters 25: Touching the Void Chapter 26: Mutability Chapter 27: The Final Burst Chapter 28: An End and a Beginning Epilogue