Exploration

Crossing Antarctica with Ranulph Fiennes, illustrations from colour photographs, route-map on endpapers, appendix giving equipment taken, bibliography, x & 182 pp, black boards in d/w, spine of d/w faded, otherwise in very good condition, Jonathan Cape 1993

23.3 x 15 cm, 550g, ISBN 0 22403 846 X

In the great British tradition of Antarctic failures, an attempt at an entirely unsupported crossing from open sea to open sea hauling sledges.  They reached the middle of the Ross Ice Shelf, a journey of 1,350 miles, before having to be picked up by an aircraft.  At the time it was the longest unsupported journey in Antarctica.  See the description (below) from the dustwrapper flap.

The book is now out of print.

The first sea-to-sea crossing of Antarctica (including its ice-shelves) was made by the Norwegian Børge Ousland in 1996-7.  His journey was 1,675 miles, and he did it solo . . . .