Call of the White by Felicity Aston
In 2009, Felicity Aston led a team of ordinarywomen some of whom had never even seen snow orslept in a tent before on a 900 km skiingtrek across the Antarctic, one of the toughest journeys on the planet. Despite eighty-mile-an-hour winds, deadly crevasses, frostbite and injuries, the expedition broke six World Records.
.. author Felicity Aston describes how she led an expedition of "ordinary women" from all over the world - including some who had never seen snow - on one of the world's toughest journeys, skiing to the South Pole. The results: frostbite, injuries, hardships - and also newfound persistence, strength, and friendship. * Publishers Weekly (USA) *
Felicity Aston has spent over a decade travelling, working and living all over the Polar Regions. In 2009 she led the most international team of women ever to ski to the South Pole; this became the subject of her first book, Call of the White, a finalist in the Banff Mountain Book Competition in 2011. Outside Magazine, the leading adventure-travel magazine in the US, named her one of their 2012 Adventurers of the Year.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781849531344 |
| ISBN 10 | 184953134X |
| Title | Call of the White |
| Author | Felicity Aston |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Octopus Publishing Group |
| Year published | 2011-03-07 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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