Table of Contents

1 Front Matter; 2 A Strange and Hostile Land; 3 Of Heroes, Rocks, and Fossils; 4 Survival Training: Tekapo, New Zealand; 5 Arrival in Antarctica; 6 Antics on Ice; 7 A Very Good Christmas; 8 Dry Valleys, Sand Dunes, and Rivers; 9 Back to the Great White South; 10 Cape Evans and Cape Royds; 11 A Flight of Discovery; 12 On Mr. Darwin's Glacier; 13 The First Worst Day of My Life; 14 Dancing on the Gorgon's Head; 15 Up the McCleary Glacier; 16 A Room at the Fish Hotel; 17 The Skua; 18 The Ascent of Mt. Gudmundson; 19 Over the Mulock Glacier; 20 Mt. Ritchie and Deception Glacier; 21 Onwards to Escalade Peak; 22 'I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas'; 23 On the Snout of the Alligator; 24 Long Day's Journey into Night; 25 Skating Away on the Thin Ice of a New Year; 26 Working on the Portal; 27 At the Crucible of Shark Evolution; 28 Pick-Up Day Problems; 29 Base Blues and Arrival Home in Australia; 30 So Much for the Afterglow; 31 Reflections from the Ice; 32 Epilogue; 33 Appendices; 34 References and Source Material; 35 Acknowledgments; 36 Index; 37 Color Plates

About the Author

John Long, Foreword by Tim Bowden