John Geiger

The Third Man Factor (eBook, ePUB)

Surviving the Impossible

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'When I look back at those days I have no doubt that Providence guided us, not only across those snow-fields, but across the storm-white sea that separated Elephant Island from our landing-place on South Georgia. I know that during that long and racking march of thirty-six hours over the unnamed mountains and glaciers of South Georgia it seemed to me often that we were four, not three.'
Ernest Shackleton

'Suddenly there was a third climber next to me. He was descending with us, keeping a regular distance a little to my right and a few steps away from me, just out of my field of vision. I could not see the figure and still maintain my concentration but I was certain there was someone there. I could sense his presence; I needed no proof.'
Reinhold Messner

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847677709
• Artikelnr.: 39505179

Autorenporträt

John Grigsby Geiger was born in Ithaca, New York, and graduated in history from the University of Alberta. The author of four books of non-fiction, his work has been translated into nine languages. He is Editorial Board Editor at The Globe and Mail, and was 2004-05 St. Clair Balfour Fellow at Massey College, University of Toronto. He is a Governor of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and Chairman of the Society's Expeditions Committee, and a Member of the Advisory Board of Wings Worldquest.