That there are still people with courage, and that the urge to explore the world still exists, is proof of Ragnar Thorseth and his friends from the North Pole expedition. In this book he tells of his exciting journey in the icy wasteland in the winter of 1982, and how he – like Fridtjof Nansen almost a hundred years earlier – fought his way through screw ice and high screw fences. And even though Thorseth used modern technical aids, the forces of nature have not changed. They are still just as violent and merciless.
Several unforeseen things happen on the trip. But even the fact that they are stuck in minus 40°C weather waiting for the plane with fuel and new provisions, that the roof is thick over the iceland and that an extra plane does not arrive, does not discourage these guys. They have set the North Pole as their goal, and they have no intention of giving up. “Once you have been bitten by the polar bacillus, it is impossible to get it out of your body,” Thorseth has said, and we understand this from the many expeditions he has undertaken.
It began with a rowing trip across the North Sea in a 15-foot Faroese, a trip that took ten days and that no one had done before him. After that, it was around the Arctic Ocean with Santho, a journey that took 65 days. In 1975, he traveled across the North Atlantic to New York with Cleng Peerson, thus following in the footsteps of the first emigrants. This trip, of 8500 miles, took him five months. In 1979, he went out again, and with sledges and a 20-foot boat he made his way through the Northwest Passage.
Nice copy with greeting/signature from the author.
