[PDF] Destination North Pole eBook

Author : Gary Wietgrefe
Publisher : Gww Books
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 34,81 MB
Release : 2020-07-10
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780999224977

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Destination North Pole is endearing, humorous, dangerous and sometimes quirky travelogue.An old guy on an old bicycle supported by a sag-wagon (his loving wife) ventures north. She traveled ahead to find nightly food and lodging as he peddled an average of 121 kilometers (75 miles) per-day for forty days searching for iconic North Pole.Nature awakened history and imagination of the senior pensioners. A love emerged from the flat Dakota Plains, Canada's Prairie Provinces, British Columbia into the vast Yukon and Alaska through eight mountain ranges with pristine streams and hot springs over massive glaciated rivers and permafrost.Wildlife? Dangers? Risks? Constantly!Hundreds of black bears and grizzlies blocked deer, elk, moose, wood bison, wolves, bicyclists, and other critters from lush road-sides. Elements (rain, wind, flurries and chilly mornings) heighten the desire for sun, wildflowers, rippling streams, glaciated mountains, hot baths and soft beds. A couple's love and a path through nature opened opportunities for others on this 5,000 kilometers (3,000 mile) adventure-Destination North Pole.

Author : Gary Wietgrefe
Publisher : Gww Books
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,51 MB
Release : 2020-07-10
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780999224977

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Destination North Pole is endearing, humorous, dangerous and sometimes quirky travelogue.An old guy on an old bicycle supported by a sag-wagon (his loving wife) ventures north. She traveled ahead to find nightly food and lodging as he peddled an average of 121 kilometers (75 miles) per-day for forty days searching for iconic North Pole.Nature awakened history and imagination of the senior pensioners. A love emerged from the flat Dakota Plains, Canada's Prairie Provinces, British Columbia into the vast Yukon and Alaska through eight mountain ranges with pristine streams and hot springs over massive glaciated rivers and permafrost.Wildlife? Dangers? Risks? Constantly!Hundreds of black bears and grizzlies blocked deer, elk, moose, wood bison, wolves, bicyclists, and other critters from lush road-sides. Elements (rain, wind, flurries and chilly mornings) heighten the desire for sun, wildflowers, rippling streams, glaciated mountains, hot baths and soft beds. A couple's love and a path through nature opened opportunities for others on this 5,000 kilometers (3,000 mile) adventure-Destination North Pole.

Author : Mike Hamill
Publisher : The Mountaineers Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 13,51 MB
Release : 2012-05-04
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1594856494

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CLICK HERE to download the first 50 pages from Climbing the Seven Summits * First and only guidebook to climbing all Seven Summits * Full color with 125 photographs and 24 maps including a map for each summit route * Essential information on primary climbing routes and travel logistics for mountaineers, with historical and cultural anecdotes for armchair readers Aconcagua. Denali. Elbrus. Everest. Kilimanjaro. Kosciuszko. Vinson. To a climber, these mountains are known as the Seven Summits* -- the highest peaks on each continent. If you've ever dreamed of climbing Denali or Everest, or joining the even more exclusive "Seven Summiters " club, then Climbing the Seven Summits is the guidebook you need to turn your dream into reality. With Mike Hamill as your guide, you will discover different approaches to tackling the list, as well as details on what you'll need to plan an expedition and what to expect from each climb. For each mountain you'll learn about documents and immunizations, expedition costs, training, guiding options, climbing styles, best seasons, essential gear, day-by-day itineraries, summit routes, maps showing approaches and camps, regional natural history, cultural notes, and even post-climb activities like going on safari in Africa or wine-touring in South America. Throughout you'll also find helpful and inspiring stories from the likes of Conrad Anker, Vern Tejas, Damien Gildea, Eric Simonson, and other famed climbers. Special insider tips from Hamill, based on his years of experience, as well as full-color photographs of each peak round out this collectible guidebook. And, because there remains some controversy about whether Kosciuszko in Australia or Carstenz Pyramid on the island of New Guinea is the "seventh summit," this guidebook to the Seven Summits actually covers eight mountains! *Within mountaineering circles there is debate over which peaks are considered the official Seven Summits. For the purposes of this guidebook, the Seven Summits are based on the continental model used in Western Europe, the United States, and Australia, also referred to as the 'Bass list.'

Author : Fergus Fleming
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 695 pages
File Size : 27,7 MB
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0802197531

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The author of Barrow’s Boys offers a fascinating look at the exploration of the Arctic in the nineteenth century. Named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, the Seattle Times, Publishers Weekly, and Time In the nineteenth century, theories about the North Pole ran rampant. Was it an open sea? Was it a portal to new worlds within the globe? Or was it just a wilderness of ice? When Sir John Franklin disappeared in the Arctic in 1845, explorers decided it was time to find out. In scintillating detail, Ninety Degrees North tells of the vying governments (including the United States, Great Britain, Germany, and Austria-Hungary) and fantastic eccentrics (from Swedish balloonists to Italian aristocrats) who, despite their heroic failures, often achieved massive celebrity as they battled shipwreck, starvation, and sickness to reach the top of the world. Drawing on unpublished archives and long-forgotten journals, Fergus Fleming recounts this riveting saga of humankind’s search for the ultimate goal with consummate craftsmanship and wit. “Barely a page goes by without the loss of a crew member or a body part . . . Fleming [is] a marvelous teller of tales—and a superb thumbnail biographer.” —The Observer “A fable of men driven to extremes by the lust for knowledge as epic as a Greek myth.” —Time

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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 39,5 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780618477920

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The Polar Express train visits the North Pole and passengers find out what the first gift of the season is going to be from Santa Claus.

Author : Robert E. Peary
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 29,22 MB
Release : 2022-05-28
Category : Travel
ISBN :

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The North Pole is a book by Robert E. Peary. It presents the discovery of The North Pole in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club in colorful fashion.

Author : Anthony Brandt
Publisher : National Geographic
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 41,95 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN :

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Anthony Brandt's authoritative narrative places this tapestry of characters into context and carries the story of Arctic exploration from the shadows of ancient times to the modern era."--Jacket.

Author : Christopher Pala
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 29,27 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0595214541

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When Christopher Pala first landed at the North Pole, he fell so much in love with it that he took his girlfriend to ride the polar treadmill on what he mischievously called the First Expedition to Nowhere. For a week, the couple skied every day to the pole, pitched their tent and drifted away from it as they slept.Between his five trips to the pole, Pala used his journalistic skills to peel away the layers of myth surrounding its discovery and capture the untold story of the first men who indisputably stood there.Pala is the first to chronicle the transformation of one of the most remote places on earth into a new Mecca for adventure travelers. Flying in every April on Russian jets, he joined risk-lovers to parachute over it, balloon across it, attain it on skis and scuba-dive under it.But as he discovers, man’s presence at the pole is still ephemeral and there is plenty of opportunity to enjoy the escape from ordinary constraints of time and space provided by this breathtakingly gorgeous place that is not a place.Excerpts of the book have appeared in Condé Nast Traveler, Blue Adventure, Polar Record and other publications.

Author : Alex Woolf
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 29,24 MB
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1482413760

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The Arctic is the opposite of a vacation destination. In this unique book, diary entries of a fictional explorer present exciting glimpses into what it takes to reach the Geographic North Pole. Each entry is accompanied by related scientific and historical information, offering a well-rounded examination of the Arctic climate and landscape. Polar explorers face dangers such as hypothermia, frostbite, whiteouts, and polar bear attacks. However, they also experience the stark beauty of a frozen wilderness. Various kinds of fact boxes and vivid photographs add veracity and interest to this daunting expedition.

Author : Frederick Albert Cook
Publisher : Globe Pequot
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,33 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Arctic regions
ISBN : 9781592280728

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The accounts of Cook and Peary's expeditions combined.