Against the Ice Audiobook Libro.fm

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Now a major Netflix film cowritten by and starring Nikolaj CosterWaldau Game of Thrones

The harrowing amazing and often amusing personal account of two mismatched Arctic explorers who banded together to keep themselves sane on an historic expedition gone horribly wrong

Ejnar Mikkelsen was devoted to Arctic exploration In 1910 he decided to search for the diaries of the illfated MyliusErichsen expedition which had set out to prove that Robert Pearys outline of the East Greenland coast was a myth erroneous and presumably selfserving Iver Iversen was a mechanic who joined Mikkelsen in Iceland when the expeditions boat needed repair

Several months later Mikkelsen and Iversen embarked on an incredible journey during which they would suffer every imaginable Arctic travail implacable cold scurvy starvation frostbite snow blindness plunges into icy seawater impossible sledding conditions Vitamin A poisoning debilitated dogs apocalyptic storms gaping crevasses and assorted mortifications of the flesh Mikkelsens diary was even eaten by a bear

Three years of this coupled with seemingly no hope of rescue would drive most crazy yet the two retained both their sanity as well as their humor

Indeed what may have saved them was their refusal to become as desolate as their surroundings

Nikolaj CosterWaldau who coadapted the book into a screenplay provides the foreword to this new edition of the classic exploration memoir which was one of The Explorers Clubs 100 Best Books of the 20th Century

Originally published as Two Against the Ice A Classic Arctic Survival Story and a Remarkable Account of Companionship in the Face of Adversity Translated from the Danish by Maurice Michael