01278nam a2200169Ia 4500 20250707105126.0 250707s9999 xx 000 0 und d 9781848853065 919.8904092 GRY Nicoll, Alastair Vere Riding the Ice Wind I.B. Tauris 2010 272 pages Leaving the security of friends, work, and a wife, Alastair Vere Nicoll 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. Not since Shackleton nearly perished attempting the same thing in his Endurance expedition had such a crossing been attempted. This is the story not only of the first West-to-East traverse of the continent of Antarctica, but of the crossing of two phases in the author’s life—from youth into manhood, fantasy into reality. It is also the story of a race against time, as he fought to get home for the birth of his first child. As Alastair battled through the freezing wastes, exploring the earth’s wildest continent and his deepest self, he was haunted by the ghosts of past explorers and by the question of what it is to be a “modern man.” Travel ENGLISH 574953 574953 0 0 0 0 ACL ACL 7B 2025-07-07 0 919.8904092 GRY 334964 2025-07-07 10:51:26 2025-07-07 ENGLISH