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Chasing the Cold - Frederik Paulsen's Quest for All Eight Poles (Hardcover)
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Chasing the Cold - Frederik Paulsen's Quest for All Eight Poles (Hardcover)
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Frederik Paulsen's first great adventure involved taking the reins,
at age thirty, of the Ferring pharmaceutical firm founded by his
father. After he had transformed the company into a multinational
corporation, Paulsen began to recall his childhood dream of
discovering unknown lands, sparked by the Viking tales of his
native Sweden. He therefore set off to explore realms of ice and
snow.In the spring of 2000, he stood at the North Pole - only to
discover that the planet had several other extreme poles: the
wandering magnetic pole, to which every compass points; the
somewhat more stable geomagnetic pole; and the 'pole of
inaccessibility'. Since the earth has two hemispheres, these four
northern poles have their southern counterparts in the Antarctic.
Paulsen therefore set himself the challenge of being the first
person to reach all eight poles.Charlie Buffet and Thierry Meyer
recount Paulsen's thirteen-year adventure in freezing, hostile
regions that were once the site of historic exploits and are now a
laboratory for scientists trying to decipher our planet's future.
The foreword is by Ellen MacArthur
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