CROSSING ANTARCTICA

• Main Authors: Steger, Will (Author), Bowermaster, Jon (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: London Bantam Press 1991
• Subjects: Antarctica > Discovery and exploration
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 In March 1990, Will Steger completed what no man had ever before attempted: the crossing of Antarctica on foot. Lured by the challenge and the beauty Earth's last great wilderness, and determined to focus the world's attention on the frozen continent now that its ecological future hangs in the balance, Steger and his International Trans-Antarctica Team had performed an extraordinary feat of endurance. The team of six men and thirty-six specially bred (some part wolf) and trained huskies took 220 days to cross the seventh continent. By sled and ski they cov ered more than thirty-seven hundred miles, surviving the most brutal weather (windchills of -150°, winds rag ing beyond one hundred miles per hour), traversing plains of ice riddled with deep and deadly crevasses, and mountain ranges as high as 11,400 feet.