On 5 February 2000 Sir Ranulph Fiennes set off on the most direct, and most difficult, route to the North Pole from Canada in an attempt to be the first man to reach the Pole this way. It involved towing a heavily laden sledge over 425 nautical miles of broken ice and open sea fractures.
Book Details
Format
hardcover
ISBN-10
0316854581
ISBN-13
9780316854580
Publication Date
Jan 2000
Item Weight
2.15 pounds
Length
10.24 inch
Width
7.76 inch
Height
0.75 inch
First Sentence
My father died of wounds in Italy in 1943, four months before I was born in Windsor, as Hitler's V25 rained down on Britain.
