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About Ice
Ice is a catalog of polar and high-latitude expeditions that the cold destroyed — Franklin's lost ships, parties stranded on the floe, balloons and airships swallowed by the Arctic — each autopsied from the departure to the disaster, with the survivors' ordeals kept in view alongside the dead.
What you'll find here
- Who set out, where they were bound, and how it ended — stated up front, never buried
- A documented timeline, a three-act account, and exactly five contributing factors
- The peril and the decision: what killed the expedition, and the choice that sealed it
- Transferable lessons, and real references from historians, official inquiries, and survivors' accounts
Ice is part of The Far Country — a reference network of doomed expeditions, told as clinical dossiers: by ice, summit, open water, and the interior. The dead, the survivors, and the local guides and peoples are treated with gravity.