Iced In: Ten Days Trapped on the Edge of Antarctica

By Chris Turney

Book Overview

"The Antarctic Factor: if anything can go wrong, it will. It's basically Murphy's Law on steroids..." --Chris Turney On Christmas Eve 2013, off the coast of East Antarctica, an abrupt weather change trapped the Shokalskiy-- the ship carrying earth scientist Chris Turney and seventy-one others involved in the Australasian Antarctic Expedition--in a densely packed armada of sea ice, 1400 miles from civilization. With the ship's hull breached and steerage lost, the wind threatened to drive the vessel into the frozen continent, smashing it to pieces. If nearby floating icebergs picked up speed, they could cause a devastating collision, leaving little time to abandon ship and potentially creating an environmental disaster. The forecast offered no relief--a blizzard was headed their way. As Turney chronicles his modern-day ordeal , he revisits famed polar explorer Ernest Shackleton's harrowing Antarctic expedition almost a century prior. His ship, Endurance, was trapped and ultimately lost to the ice, forcing Shackleton and his men to fight for survival on a vast and treacherous icescape for two years. Turney also draws inspiration from Douglas Mawson, whose Antarctic explorations were equally legendary. But for Turney the stakes were even higher-- for unlike Shackleton or Mawson, he had his wife and children with him. Yet there was another key difference: Shackleton and Mawson were completely cut off; Turney's expedition was connected to the outside world through Twitter, YouTube, and Skype. Within hours, the team became the focus of a media storm, and an international rescue effort was launched to reach the stranded ship. But could help arrive in time to avert a tragedy? A taut 21st-century survival story, Iced In is also an homage to Shackleton, Mawson, and other scientific explorers who embody the human spirit of adventure, joy in discovery, and will to live.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080653852X
• ISBN13: 9780806538525
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Citadel
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.4" x 1.1" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Turney in the ice.

Ice, Mud and Blood was my first of Turney, and an amazing must read. When I heard his ship was stuck in the Antarctic ice a few years back, my first thought was, 'I hope he writes about that.' Well, Iced In is one of those edge of your seat stories, he had his family with him, was stuck in the ice, the other ice breakers were stuck...what a great read.