Antarctica: one of the coldest and most desolate locations on Earth, a desert of ice, much of it still unexplored even today. What can possibly draw people there? Yet Antarctica can also be enchanting, a land of beauty and unanticipated delight, and its siren song has always lured men and women to test themselves among its frozen wastes.
It was a journey long thought impossible. The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctica Expedition of 1957/58, led by Vivian 'Bunny' Fuchs, was one of the 20th century's triumphs of exploration - a powerful expression of technological daring as much as a testament of sheer, bloody-minded human willpower. As a key member of the expedition, Everest veteran George Lowe was there to capture it all in photographs and on film.
A trove of unpublished images and other rare materials from the Lowe archive are brought together here for the first time, along with others from the Fuchs family collection. There has never been a book on Antarctica quite like this. Awe-inspiring landscapes, candid portraits and action shots evoke the day-by-day moments as the expedition travelled across snow and ice, facing extraordinary challenges and dangers.
The Crossing of Antarctica is a remarkable visual and personal testimony of a polar expedition that rewrote the history books and an epic journey of endurance and fellowship in the wildest of places.
By:
George Lowe,
Huw Lewis-Jones,
Ranulph Fiennes
Imprint: Thames & Hudson
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 270mm,
Width: 220mm,
Spine: 27mm
Weight: 1.440kg
ISBN: 9780500252024
ISBN 10: 0500252025
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 01 September 2014
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Prologue, A Forgotten Hero, Huw Lewis-Jones; Foreword, A Dream Fulfilled, Peter Fuchs and Jonathan Shackleton; Introduction, Brave Spirits, Sir Ranulph Fiennes • 1. The Map on the Wall • 2. Across the Ice • 3. Beyond the Horizon • 4. Reflections by Arved Fuchs, Sir Wally Herbert, Klaus Dodds, Geoff Somers, Børge Ousland, Felicity Aston, Eirik Sonneland, Sebastian Copeland, Jon Bowermaster, Ken Blaiklock • Epilogue, Footsteps in the Snow, Paul Dalrymple
Reviews for The Crossing of Antarctica: Original Photographs from the Epic Journey that Fulfilled Shackleton's Dream
A photographic monograph that shows in dramatic detail just how different this journey was. . . . Lowe s narrative, combined with essays by Huw Lewis-Jones, form an entertaining account . . . and leave the reader wondering why it ever had slipped into the backwaters of history.
