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Pole Dance By Tom Avery (Orion, 2004) Written in diary format this charts the expedition of Tom Avery, the youngest (and fastest) explorer to reach the South Pole . . . 45 days and six hours in November/December 2002.
It's all there in terms of evocative landscape . . . the polar storms, the mini-parachuting across the ice, the scary crevasse accidents . . . and accompanied by some photographs that illustrate only too well just what Avery and his team were up against. And always at their side is the ghost of the author's childhood hero, the famous (Robert) Scott of the Antarctic
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