Across the Arctic Ocean : : Original Photographs From the Last Great Polar Journey
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"With personal reflections from Victor Boyarsky, Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Martin Hartley, Kari Herbert, Erling Kagge, Peter Otway, Børge Ousland, Geoff Renner, Dmitry Shparo, Cecilie Skog"--Page [5].
Introduction by Sir Ranulph Fiennes.
On 21st February 1968, Wally Herbert and his team of three companions and forty huskies set out from Point Barrow, Alaska, embarking on a journey that no one had ever attempted. Sixteen hard months later they finally set foot once more on solid land in Spitsbergen, having attained the North Pole and crossed the frozen Arctic Ocean for the first time. Travelling and living on ice that was in continual motion, sometimes buckling and breaking beneath them, they had endured exteme cold and months of winter darkness, and faced frequent encounters with polar bears. Though their achievement was overshadowed by the Apollo moon-landing, it stands today as one of the greatest expeditions of all time.
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PUBLISHED
London : Thames & Hudson, 2015.
Year Published: 2015
Description: 239 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 29 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780500252147
0500252149
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Lewis-Jones, Huw.
Fiennes, Ranulph, Sir, 1944-
SUBJECTS
Herbert, Wally -- Travel.
British Trans-Arctic Expedition -- (1968-1969)
British Trans-Arctic Expedition -- (1968-1969)
Explorers -- Arctic regions -- Biography.
Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration.
Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration -- Pictorial works.