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Cold - Extreme Adventures at the Lowest Temperatures on Earth (Paperback)
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Cold - Extreme Adventures at the Lowest Temperatures on Earth (Paperback)
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Loot Price R235
Discovery Miles 2 350
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There are only few human beings who can adapt, survive and thrive
in the coldest regions on earth. And below a certain temperature,
death is inevitable. Sir Ranulph Fiennes has spent much of his life
exploring and working in conditions of extreme cold. The loss of
many of his fingers to frostbite is a testament to the horrors man
is exposed to at such perilous temperatures. With the many
adventures he has led over the past 40 years, testing his limits of
endurance to the maximum, he deservedly holds the title of 'the
world's greatest explorer'. Despite our technological advances, the
Arctic, the Antarctic and the highest mountains on earth, remain
some of the most dangerous and unexplored areas of the world. This
remarkable book reveals the chequered history of man's attempts to
discover and understand these remote areas of the planet, from the
early voyages of discovery of Cook, Ross, Weddell, Amundsen,
Shackleton and Franklin to Sir Ranulph's own extraordinary feats;
from his adventuring apprenticeship on the Greenland Ice Cap, to
masterminding over the past five years the first crossing of the
Antarctic during winter, where temperatures regularly plummeted to
minus 92C. Both historically questioning and intensely personal,
Cold is a celebration of a life dedicated to researching and
exploring some of the most hostile and brutally cold places on
earth.
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