About the Author

KEVIN OLIVER has been a Royal Marine for nearly twenty-five years. He trained as a Mountain and Arctic Warfare specialist, spent six winters in Norway and has served operationally in Northern Ireland, Iraq and Afghanistan. He started dinghy sailing as a small child while living in Greece. At 19 he was climbing as a pair in the Andes and then descended an Amazonian river on a self-constructed balsa wood raft. Since then he has become a qualified mountaineer and yacht skipper. He lives in Devon with his wife and two teenage sons. TONY LANCASHIRE is an enthusiastic sailor and mountaineer fortunate enough to have pursued his twin passions around the world from the Alpine peaks to South East Asian seas. Eighteen years as an officer in the Royal Marines have no doubt honed an instinctive sense of independence and self-reliance during a lifetime of adventure. He currently lives in Bristol with his long-term girlfriend, where he is planning his next trip, this time to Antarctica, in a slightly larger boat -

Reviews

This expedition was to try something extremely difficult, perhaps not possible, but if we always flinched from attempting the difficult things in life then humans would never have progressed ... we are living in an increasingly risk-averse society, but risk is what makes the adrenalin flow, brings spice into our lives and shows others that risks are part of living. Far from being discouraged it should be supported. - Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, in his Foreword