• Against the Ice:  The Classic Arctic Survival Story

    Against the Ice: The Classic Arctic Survival Story

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    Against the Ice: The Classic Arctic Survival Story Description:

    A harrowing person account of survival and the awe-inspiring power of companionship and friendship.

    Ejnar Mikkelsen, an experienced Arctic adventurer, set out in 1909 to prove that Robert Peary's outline of the East Greenland coast was a myth, erroneous and presumably self-serving. Iver Iversen, a ship's mechanic with no experience as an explorer, joined the expedition by chance in Iceland when its boat needed repair.

    Several months later, Mikkelsen and Iversen would find themselves cut off from the world. During their ordeal, they would suffer every imaginable Arctic travail: implacable cold, scurvy, starvation, frostbite, snow blindness, plunges into icy seawater, impossible sledding conditions, Vitamin A poisoning, debilitated dogs, apocalyptic storms, gaping crevasses, and assorted mortifications of the flesh. Mikkelsen's diary was even eaten by a bear.

    Three years of this, coupled with seemingly no hope of rescue, would drive almost anyone to madness and despair, yet the two retained their sanity, as well as their humor, because they had each other.

    Now a Netflix film starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Joe Cole, and Heida Reed, and directed by Peter Flinth.

    206 pages