ON THE ICE  READING RECOMMENDATIONS

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The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition, Caroline Alexander

Shackleton's Forgotten Men: The Untold Tragedy of the Endurance Epic, Lennard Bickel

Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest, Wade Davis

Race to the Pole: Tragedy, Heroism, and Scott's Antarctic Quest, Ranulph Fiennes

Ninety Degrees North: The Quest for the North Pole, Fergus Fleming

A Black Explorer at the North Pole: An Autobiographical Report by the Negro Who Conquered the Top of the World.., Matthew Henson

The Ends of the Earth: An Anthology of the Finest Writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic, Elizabeth Kolbert, ed. & Francis Spufford, ed.

The Longest Winter: The Incredible Survival of Captain Scott's Lost Party, Katherine Lambert

In the Empire of Ice: Encounters in a Changing Landscape, Gretel Ehrlich

Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic, Jennifer Niven

The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk, Jennifer Niven

Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration, David Roberts

Following Atticus: Forty-Eight Hight Peaks, One Little Dog, and an Extraordinary Friendship, Tom Ryan

Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters, James M. Tabor

The Lost Men: The Harrowing Saga of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party, Kelly Tyler-Lewis

The Ice Balloon: S.A. Andree and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration, Alec Wilkinson

Arctic Labyrinth: The Quest for the Northwest Passage, Glyndwr Williams

Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day, Peter Zuckerman

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