Ever wondered what would be required of you to follow the lucky and courageous few who have set foot on the North and South Poles' frozen lands, with only the sole purpose of exploring them? Or what it would be like to watch a sniffing polar bear edge ever closer to your home for the night?
Polar Exploration is a comprehensive guidebook full of amazing experiences, knowledgable tips and tricks and in-depth explanations and descriptions of expeditions to the poles - the best ways to prepare for them and carry them out. Author Dixie Dansercoer is an unstoppable outdoorsman and extreme sports lover, whose enthusiasm and respect for these environments shines through.
A practical guide illustrated with suitably atmospheric photography, it includes sections on understanding the cold, the best equipment to take with you and what to do when you are there. For newcomers in need of guidance, it will aid the necessary slow immersion into a complex world of survival. For returning explorers, there is plenty of information on equipment, techniques and experiences to compare and contrast.

Polar Exploration: A practical handbook for North and South Pole expeditions

Sports & Outdoors

Dansercoer, Dixie

Hiking & Camping

Cicerone Press Limited

In November 1997 two Belgian explorers set out on an incredible journey. From the east coast of Dronning Maud Land they headed south through the most inhospitable terrain in the world to the American base at McMurdo Sound. They intended to cross the Antarctic continent from South to North without any outside help. They carried in their ultra-light sledges not only supplies for the entire journey but also scientific equipment nnecessary for taking ice-core samples from snows where no human had ever set foot. Ninety-nine days and 3924 kilometres laterthey reached their goal. On the way they set many new records , managing on some days to clock up distances of over one hundred kilometres at amazing speeds. Their exploit was made possible only by the unprecedented use of traction sails which had been conceived and designed specifically for the expedition, with the aim of harnessing the fierce Polar katabatic winds and which provided new possibilities for mlong distance travel in icy regions. This full colour book contains over 90 pictures of their trip, many maps and drawings as well as technical details of the sails and their supplies,

In the Teeth of the Wind: South Through the Pole

Hubert, Alain

Travel

The Erskine Press

SNOWKITING: FREEDOM OF FLOW

Miscellaneous

SNOECK GENT

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