Heat & Cold - Ranulph Fiennes

HEAT

Sir Ranulph Fiennes has climbed the Eiger and Mount Everest. Hes crossed both Poles on foot. Hes been a member of the SAS and fought a bloody guerrilla war in Oman.

Here he recounts some of his and otherss daring exploits in some of the hottest and most inhospitable terrain on earth. With the emphasis on hot wars and hot places. Sometimes combining both. Here you will find men either slogging through or fighting over deserts.

COLD

Despite our technological advances, the Arctic, the Antarctic and the highest mountains on earth remain some of the most dangerous.and unexplored areas of the world. This remarkable book reveals the chequered history of mans attempts to discover and understand these remotwareas of the planet, from the early voyages of discovery of Cook, Ross, Weddell, Amundsen, Shackleton and Franklin to Sir Ranulphs own extraordinary feats; from his adventuring apprenticeship on the notoriously dangerous Jostedalsbreen glacier in Norway, to masterminding over the past five years the first attempt to cross the Antarctic during winter, where temperatures regularly plummet to minus 92°C.

Both historically questioning and intensely personal, Cold is a celebration of a life dedicated to researching and exploring some of the most hostile and brutally bleak places on earth.