Riding the Ice Wind
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Riding the Ice Wind

By Kite and Sledge across Antarctica

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Riding the Ice Wind

By Kite and Sledge across Antarctica

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Adrift in a life without risk or surprise and with a burning desire to make some sense of his place in the world, Alastair Vere Nicoll dived into the unknown. Leaving the security of friends, work and a wife, he joined a team of young men to harness the katabatic winds and haul and kite-surf across Antarctica: the coldest, windiest, most violent continent on earth. For Alastair, Antarctica was a land of legend and mystery, the ultimate test of strength, endurance and bravery; a place where he might feed his restlessness and find meaning in the emptiness. Not since Shackleton had nearly perished attempting the same thing in his Endurance expedition had such a crossing been attempted. This is the story of the first West to East traverse of the continent of Antarctica and of a race against time as Alastair fought to get home for the birth of his first child. Told with honesty and wisdom and adorned with some bewitching descriptions of Antarctica, "Riding the Ice Wind" is a compelling and subtly important book for our times.

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Publisher
I.B. Tauris
Year
2010
ISBN
9780857730534
Edition
1
Topic
Personal Development
Subtopic
Travel

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Author biography
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Foreword
  6. Contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Route Map
  9. Introduction
  10. 1 Beginnings
  11. 2 Flaubert’s Parrot
  12. 3 A New Life
  13. 4 Altered Reality
  14. 5 Constructing the Creature
  15. 6 There But Still Nowhere
  16. 7 Family Matters
  17. 8 Fly on my Wind
  18. 9 A New Horizon
  19. 10 The Icefall
  20. 11 The Layer Cake
  21. 12 Down and Out
  22. 13 Silence Valley
  23. 14 The Sword of Damocles
  24. 15 Difficult Decisions
  25. 16 It’s All in the Mind
  26. 17 Uncontactable
  27. 18 Divide and Rule
  28. 19 Heat Miser
  29. 20 Travelling Without Moving
  30. 21 The South Pole
  31. 22 Leaving the End of the Earth
  32. 23 North
  33. 24 The Winds of Change
  34. 25 Touching the Void
  35. 26 Mutability
  36. 27 The Final Burst
  37. 28 An End and a Beginning
  38. Epilogue
  39. Select Bibliography
  40. Author’s Note
  41. Acknowledgements
  42. Endnotes