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"Suddenly the men came across a very steep blue ice slope and the sled began to accelerate even faster down the slippery hill like a toboggan, with the three terrified men lying facedown and clinging onto the straps that held their precious gear in place. The sled, which had no means of braking, raced to a frightening speed of about sixty miles an hour as it plunged helter-skelter into the unknown. At one point it seemed that it had literally taken off as it shot straight across a yawning crevasse with the men hanging on for dear life. Evans cast a quick glance at Crean who raised his eyebrows as if to say "What next!"Tom Crean's name is not commonly recognized today, but he was an integral member of three of the most important Antarctic expeditions of the twentieth century, and both a glacier and a mountain in Antarctica bear his name.Crean ran away from his home in Ireland's County Kerry to join the navy shortly before his sixteenth birthday and, in 1901, he volunteered to join Robert Falcon Scott's first expedition to Antarctica. It was three years before he returned to civilization, but Crean was hooked, and when Scott made his second -- and fatal -- voyage to the continent in

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Author

Smith, Michael

Publisher

The Collins Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781848890534

Category

history

Subjects

Memoir, Adventure, Historical Fiction

Rating

4.42 / 5 (423 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14