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(More customer reviews)Going on a trek? Heading for the wilderness? Will you be alone and dependent on others? Choose your companions carefully is the message this book sends.
One man has the guts to speak the truth and condemns an outdoor hero to mediocrity. Eric Philips blames the failure of the 1999 Ice Trek expedition on the son of Everest conquerer Sir Edmund Hillary. Peter Hillary slowed the expedition to such an extent that this self supported sledging trip from Scott Base to the South Pole was the slowest ever and the return leg from the pole had to be cancelled.
Philips's description of the tensions induced by the weak member of the expedition trio, sets this book apart from the normal antarctic book fare. In fact, one now wonders what eminent authors like Scott and Shackleton left out of their famous antarctic memoirs.
Peter Hillary sued Eric Philips to try and stop publication of this book in his native New Zealand to avoid tarnishing his reputation. Philips later settled out of court so the book could go ahead and be published in North America.
Ice Trek is highly recommended reading for all adventure readers and antarctic buffs.
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In the summer of 1998-1999, Eric Philips, Jon Muir and Peter Hillary set out tocomplete the 3000 kilometer return journey from Ross Island to the South Pole.Their journeywas meticulously planned with high-tech sleds, kites and satellite phones.The journey wasconducted in a blaze of publicity, with regular calls live to the Holmes show and an Internetsite.Hampered by appalling weather and illness, they reached the Pole, but never completed the return journey.Tensions erupted in a public falling-out, mainly between Eric and Peter.Thisbook is Eric's account of his physical and emotional journey across the pristine wilderness ofAntarctica.Eric Philips is an experienced international adventurer: he made the first skitraverse of Ellesmere Island (the Canadian Arctic); he has cycled through Patagonia and Tierradel Fuego and he was Field Training Officer at Mawson Station in Antarctice in 1996-1997.
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