Blizzard: Race to The Pole

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Published by BBC Books, London, 2006, 1st UK Edition, D/w, Fine.   In late 1911, the final year of the Edwardian era, a British naval captain and a Norwegian conqueror of the North-West Passage both set out to become the first to lead a team to the South Pole.  Six months later, Robert Falcon Scott and four of his party were dead, while Roald Amundsen’s victory had been wired around the world.  In a unique television experiment a century later, two teams led by Norwegian explorer Rune Gjeldnes and the television anthropologist Bruce Parry set out to recreate the famous race, wearing the same type of clothing, surviving on the same diet, using the same equipment and discovering, in their search for answers to some of the questions surrounding the original ‘race’, that the polar environment is just as challenging and as difficult as it was a hundred years earlier.  The book accompanied the TV series Blizzard.