North to the Night

[Roger Long]

If you think that I'm pushing the weather envelope, you must read this book:

http://www.globecorner.com/t/t32/16447.php

You owe it to yourself to read it anyway.

 

[Ed Schenck]

Thanks Roger, always grateful for a reading reference. I see it is available for my Kindle. I'll download this morning. I am on my thirteenth book since Christmas, Shaara's "Rise to Rebellion". It's about the thirteen colonies which, of course, you were not involved in. Watch the weather. Hope your diesel tank is full.

 

[CalebD]

Yes Roger, at least you headed south for the winter.
Alvah Simon on the other hand headed up to the arctic circle and spent the winter there on his boat. Not an undertaking most would consider reasonable or even sane. It makes for quite a good read though.

 

[captmichael]

Been there, done that! South Pole Station 1968 winter over.

If you think that I'm pushing the weather envelope, you must read this book:

http://www.globecorner.com/t/t32/16447.php

You owe it to yourself to read it anyway.

I've read the book and experienced a winter over at the Amusdsen/Scott Lat. 90 degrees before the beautiful facilty that's there now. It only got down to minus 110.5F that year (1968).

 

[Scott T-Bird]

I questioned his credibility when (late in the book) he claimed that he fell into step behind a polar bear and slapped it on the rump (or was close enough to). I think it must have been a fantasy or a hallucination, but after spending a winter alone on a boat (except for his cat?) locked in ice in the arctic, I suppose he was entitled ...

You may not be pushing it by heading north this early this year. Thursday, it was around 60 and sunny and I watched a sailboat on the Hudson sailing in front of mid-town. Again today, even though it was cold and very windy, a sailboat was running with the wind at breakneck speed (for a sailboat anyway) southbound on the Hudson again, in front of the condominium where I have a project. My wife thinks the guy had to be crazy.

 

[Scott T-Bird]

If you like that book, you might like another that I found to be astonishingly honest and introspective. "From Everest to Enlightenment" is written by Canadian, Alan Hobson. After he wrote that book, he went on to visit the deepest ocean trench by submarine, I believe. He might not be one of the most likable fellows, but he also holds no punches when he beats up on himself.