The story at the root of 'The Greatest Polar Expedition of All Time' is interesting: Nothing like the 2019-20 MOSAiC Expedition to the Arctic Ocean had previously been attempted. But the book doesn't quite live up to its potential, our reviewer says.
We’ll get the title out of the way first. If you’re going to call your book “The Greatest Polar Expedition of All Time,” you had better be able to back that claim.
The loss of ice is so severe that in the summer of 2020, after exiting the ice fields, the Polarstern turned northward once again and, mostly following open leads, became the first ship to ever sail across the North Pole. A feat unimaginable even a decade ago, and one that truly drives home how quickly the polar ice cap is vanishing.
“The orange-tinged full moon is low on the horizon, huge and unreal,” he writes of a ski trip during the polar night. “I glide through the darkness between huge pressure ridges, past epic ice sculptures, and over low-lying flat plains ... The moon bathes everything in a sallow light. Even without my headlamp, I can see contours of the icy landscape. It’s out of this world, with deep-black shadows in the low lying areas, an almost unreal, absolute black.
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