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Against the Ice : The Classic Arctic Survival Story by Ejnar Mikkelsen; Nikolaj Coster-Waldau; Maurice Michael; Overdrive Inc is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Against the Ice : The Classic Arctic Survival Story about?

Now a major Netflix film co-written by and starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game of Thrones) The harrowing, amazing, and often amusing personal account of two mismatched Arctic explorers who banded together to keep themselves sane on an historic expedition gone horribly wrong Ejnar Mikkelsen was devoted to Arctic exploration. In 1910 he decided to search for the diaries of the ill-fated Mylius-Erichsen expedition, which had set out to prove that Robert Peary’s outline of the East Greenland coast was a myth, erroneous and presumably self-serving. Iver Iversen was a mechanic who joined Mikkelsen in Iceland when the expedition’s boat needed repair. Several months later, Mikkelsen and Iversen embarked on an incredible journey during which 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 most crazy, yet the two retained both

Who reads Against the Ice : The Classic Arctic Survival Story?

Author

Ejnar Mikkelsen; Nikolaj Coster-Waldau; Maurice Michael; Overdrive Inc

Publisher

Steerforth Press

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781586423353

Category

history

Subjects

History, Humanities

Rating

4.6 / 5 (321 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14