Icewalk

by Robert Swan

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022402793X
• ISBN13: 9780224027939
• Release Date: May 1990
• Publisher: Random House (UK)
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 2.03 lbs.

Customer Reviews

IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF SCOTT

An extraordinary story told in spare but vivid detail. The 70 day journey was a strange mixture of high exhiliration and grinding exhaustion. Especially memorable is the moment when they had to decide to go on or go back....deserves to be widely read. Hiro Onishi, the Japanese mountaineer who went on to scale Mt Everest successfully fell victim to a debilitating virus. Swan himself, willed himself on despite the excruciating pain of a spinal injury. Three of the men fought against the effects of bronchitis and frostbite. The astonishing journey draws on the entire teams diaries and is illustrated with breathtaking photographs. This candid chronicle of their courage and endurance is one of the most enthralling stories of our time