Tells of Ranulph Fiennes's and Michael Stroud's bid to cross the Antarctic continent without assistance. Equipment failure and injury dogged them; friendship turned to hatred. Yet when they were airlifted out more dead than alive, they had completed the longest unsupported journey in polar history.

"This book was a gift.  I had decided to read one of Sir Ranulphs books already, after all, this is the man who had these vehicles built.  It also seems that there are lessons here to be learnt from His sheer determination."

Daniel.