What does it take to move forty dogs; three sleds; twenty tons of food and gear; and six men from all over the world across nearly four thousand of the coldest miles on earth? Cathy de Moll; the executive director of the 1990 International Trans-Antarctica Expedition; introduces the wild cast of characters who made it happen; on the ice and off: leaders Will Steger and Jean-Louis Etienne; who first met accidentally; on the way to the North Pole; Valery Skatchkov; the Soviet bureaucrat who supplied a "hot" Russian airplane; Yasue Okimoto; who couldn't bear to leave headquarters in Minnesota while her boyfriend was on the ice; Qin Dahe; the Chinese member of the team; who didn't know how to ski; the millions of children who followed the expedition in schools around the world; learning about the fragility and ferocity of the seventh continent; and many others.
#1599996 in Books Kent State University Press 1997-06Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 .82 x 6.31 x 9.34l; #File Name: 0873385659242 pages
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