Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration Audiobook
Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration Audiobook
- Matthew Brenher
- Blackstone Audiobooks
- 2013-01-28
- 11 h 42 min
Summary:
His two companions were dead, his food and materials had vanished in a crevasse, and Douglas Mawson was still one hundred mls from camp.
On January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Mawson, leader from the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to bottom camp. The canines were gone. Today Mawson himself plunged through a snow bridge, dangling over an abyss from the sledge harness. A type of poetry offered him the will to haul himself back again to the surface.
Mawson was sometimes reduced to crawling, and one night he found that the bottoms of his foot had completely detached in the flesh beneath. On February 8, when he staggered back to foundation, his features unrecognizably skeletal, the first teammate to attain him blurted out, “Which one are you?”
This thrilling and almost unbelievable account establishes Mawson in his rightful place among the biggest polar explorers and expedition leaders.