A life in the ice

"He has rendered greater & more valuable services to the Norwegian polar expeditions than any other man."

Roald Amundsen wrote this about Adolf Henrik Lindstrøm during his stay at Framheim, the last outpost before the conquest of the South Pole in 1911.

Adolf Henrik Lindstrøm (1866–1939) is the Norwegian with the longest experience in the Arctic and Antarctic. He participated in all the great, classic polar expeditions with Nansen, Amundsen and Sverdrup. He was also the first to sail around the entire American continent.

Lindstrøm was an excellent chef. His "Steak à la Lindstrøm" is still on many menus, and in the years around World War I was served at all the Grand hotels in Northern Europe. In addition, Lindstrøm collected stones, pressed flowers and prepared skins for the leading natural scientists of his time. And he was an experienced sailor, a good hunter, skier and dog sledder.

With his human warmth and simple everyday psychology, he created a homely atmosphere in the most windswept places on earth. Even the great national heroes came to him with their sorrows and worries. Lindstrøm's indefatigable spirit through months and years of freezing cold, darkness and isolation made him very valuable out in the icy wilderness.

This is the book about a true polar hero, a story filled with excitement, humor and, not least, good food.