Bob Shepton is an ordained minister in the Church of England in his
late 70s, but spends most of his time sailing into the Arctic and
making first ascents of inaccessible mountains. No tea parties for
this vicar. Opening with the disastrous fire that destroyed his
yacht whilst he was ice-bound in Greenland, the book travels back
to his childhood growing up on the rubber plantation his father
managed in Malaysia, moving back to England after his father was
shot by the Japanese during the war, boarding school, the Royal
Marines, and the church. We then follow Bob as he sails around the
world with a group of schoolboys, is dismasted off the Falklands,
trapped in ice, and climbs mountains accessible only from
iceberg-strewn water and with only sketchy maps available. Bob
Shepton, winner of the 2013 Yachtsman of the Year Award, is an
old-school adventurer, and this compelling book is in the spirit of
sailing mountaineer HW Tilman, explorer Ranulph Fiennes, climber
Chris Bonington and yachtsman Robin Knox-Johnston, all of whom have
been either friends of Bob's or an inspiration for his own
exploits. Derring do in a dog collar! Ranulph Fiennes: 'A wonderful
true tale of adventure.' Bear Grylls: 'You are going to enjoy
this...as a Commando, Bob is clearly made of the right stuff!'
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