Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration Audiobook (Free)

His two companions were dead, his food and materials had vanished inside a crevasse, and Douglas Mawson was still a hundred mls from camp.

On January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Mawson, leader from the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to bottom camp. The canines were gone. Now Mawson himself plunged through a snow bridge, dangling over an abyss from the sledge funnel. A type of poetry provided him the will to haul himself back again to the surface.

Mawson was sometimes reduced to crawling, and one night he found that the bottoms of his foot had completely detached in the flesh beneath. On February 8, when he staggered back again to bottom, his features unrecognizably skeletal, the initial teammate to reach him blurted out, “Which are you?”

This exciting and almost incredible accounts establishes Mawson in his rightful place among the greatest polar explorers and expedition market leaders.