Call of the White - Taking the World to the South Pole

Informationen zum Autor Felicity Aston has spent over a decade travelling, working and living all over the Polar Regions. In 2009 she led the most international team of women ever to ski to the South Pole; this became the subject of her first book, Call of the White, a finalist in the Banff Mountain Book Competition in 2011. Outside Magazine, the leading adventure-travel magazine in the US, named her one of their 2012 Adventurers of the Year. Klappentext Aston describes her mission to put together an all-female international team to ski to the South Pole. She led the team from places as diverse as Jamaica, India, Singapore and Cyprus, many of whom had never even seen snow before, on one of the toughest journeys on the planer. The book's publication coincides with International Women's Day and Commonwealth Day, two causes that underpin the book. Zusammenfassung In 2009, Felicity Aston led a team of ‘ordinary’ women – some of whom had never even seen snow or slept in a tent before – on a 900 km skiing trek across the Antarctic, one of the toughest journeys on the planet. Despite eighty-mile-an-hour winds, deadly crevasses, frostbite and injuries, the expedition broke six World Records.

Product details

• Authors: Felicity Aston, Aston Felicity
• Publisher: Summersdale Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.03.2011
• EAN: 9781849531344
• ISBN: 978-1-84953-134-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 198 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Guides > Sport; TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, True stories, TRAVEL / Special Interest / Adventure, Expeditions, Expeditions: popular accounts, Travel writing, True stories: general, True stories of heroism, endurance & survival, True stories of heroism, endurance and survival