title: Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration
author:  David Roberts 
description: A fresh and thoroughly researched account of Doulas Mawson's epic journey of self-rescue across one of the most inhospitable regions known to man. Roberts takes the reader alongside the men of the 1912 Australasian Antarctic Expedition, and the desperation of Mawson s sledge journey can be well imagined step by frigid step. --Ed Viesturs, author of K2: Life and Death on the World s Most Dangerous Mountain"<br /><br />This is Roberts at his best, telling a little-known tale of adventure, tragedy, and endurance. Mawson may be the most famous Australian explorer, and Alone on the Ice is an admirable introduction of him to American readers. --Greg Child, author of Over the Edge"<br /><br />If you like frostbite-inducing weather and death-defying adventure stories, then award-winning author David Roberts gives you what you want: a wonderfully told, impressively researched tale of brave explorers confronting Antarctic blizzards, a deadly landscape pockmarked with deep crevasses and intrepid men trying to come back alive. --Chuck Leddy"<br /><br />An important missing story from the heroic age of Antarctic exploration, this book will steal the night from you. Gripping and superb. --Laurence Gonzales, author of Surviving S"<br /><br />Others have written the loose outlines of Douglas Mawson s astonishing survival against the worst conditions that Antarctica can deliver a lesser-known but equally compelling epic as that of Ernest Shackleton but Roberts s telling trumps them all. --Gordon Wiltsie, author of To the Ends of"<br /><br />An accurate and enthralling account of the greatest storyofpolar exploration and survival. Roberts takes the reader back to a time of hardship, collective friendship, and a level of determination unknown in todays culture. This bookwill make youcherish every meal and the joys of a warm bed. --Conrad Anker, coauthor of The Lost Explo"
zlib_text: ALONE
  ON THE ICE
  The Greatest
  Survival Story
  in the History of
  Exploration
  DAVID ROBERTS
  
  Dedication
  For Sharon—
  without whose love and support
  I would not be a writer today
  
  CONTENTS
  Cover
  Title Page
  Dedication
  1. Forgotten by God
  2. Prof Doggo
  3. Cape Denison
  4. The Home of the Blizzard
  5. The Painful Silence
  6. Dead Easy to Die
  7. Winter Madness
  Epilogue
  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  NOTES
  BIBLIOGRAPHY
  INDEX
  Picture Section
  Copyright
  Also by David Roberts
  
  1
  FORGOTTEN BY GOD
  It was a fitful start to the most ambitious venture ever launched in
  Antarctica. After eight days of arduous toil on the featureless plateau of
  snow and ice, the three men were camped only 20 miles from their base,
  the sturdy hut at Cape Denison in which the whole party had wintered
  over during the previous ten months. Those eight days had been plagued
  by backtracking trips to relay loads, by constant tinkering with balky
  gear, and by a two-day storm with gales so strong the men could not
  budge from their tent.
  The date was N