Short description
On 5th 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.
Long description
On 5th February 2000 Sir Ranulph Fiennes set off on the most direct - and most difficult - route to the North Pole from Canada. It involved towing a heavily laden sledge over 425 nautical miles of broken ice and open sea fractures. In fact, it is more like 900 miles because the ice drifts backwards. This is an account of the journey, which takes four to five months and during which Fiennes loses more than a third of his bodyweight.
Review
The world's greatest living explorer GUINNESS BOOK OF RECORDS My admiration for Ran is unbounded and thank God he exists. The world would be a far duller place without him HRH PRINCE CHARLES