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TO
THE POLE
by
Caroline Hamilton.
Published by Virgin ISBN
0 7535 0507 X
'Film
financier Hamilton, leader of the British womans team
to reach the South Pole this year, tells a pole to
pole story here - not only the 700-mile marathon walk
across the frozen Antarctic land mass, dragging food
and equipment on sledges, but how her crew also trekked
to the North Pole in 1997. The call of adventure comes
across loud and clear in this well written account,
including that Hamilton's ambitions to be the best
were sparked by her brothers' childhood goadings of
her as sissy and weakling. The descriptions of the
selection and training of the five-women team on survival
forays into Dartmoor show them to be anything but
that. Sterling stuff, and Prince Charles gets an honourable
mention as their patron.' Publishing News |
