Book “Survivant des Glaces” (FR)

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⚠ This book is in French ⚠

Discover the latest book from the explorer Mike Horn!

Mike Horn‘s last expedition, Pole2Pole, consisted of a crossing from the North Pole to the South Pole, without motorised vehicles, by ski, kayak and aboard his ice-breaking sailboat. This adventure, completed on 30 December 2019, is the most extreme he has ever accomplished. In this thrilling account of his odyssey between the two most opposite points of our globe, he will once again realise that man is tiny in the face of nature and its dangers, but that he will not give up on facing them for anything in the world.

‘In a haste, a feverishness that is foreign to me, I made a false step that could have proved fatal… Mistakes are not an option in the life I’ve led for the last thirty years, and this time they condemn my recklessness. The fragility of the snow film is probably right to cry out to me that I thought I was probably stronger than it; to remind me that it’s never nature that lays traps, but rather the over-confident man who fails in his duties of reserve and precaution. For that alone, I may deserve to die… But I’ve always preferred revolt to resignation.’