Ice is a riveting collection of writing about polar exploration -- stories of self-sacrifice, beauty, and heroism by eminent adventurers who have endured 50-below-zero temperatures, gale winds, and starvation to explore the farthest reaches of the globe. Robert Scott's journals recount his long march to and from the South Pole, which ends with the death of all his men and Scott himself. Ernest Shackleton offers an account of his heroic efforts to save his men when their ship was crushed by ice thousands of miles from civilization. Richard Byrd writes of his own near-breakdown under the stress of spending a winter alone at the South Pole.

from Mawson's will / Lennard Bickel --
A bad time / Nancy Mitford --
from The worst journey in the world / Apsley Cherry-Garrard --
from Scott's last expedition: the journals / Robert Falcon Scott --
A simple quest / Michael McRae --
from Alone / Richard E. Byrd --
from The voyage of the Jeannette / George W. DeLong --
from Arctic dreams / Barry Lopez --
The last pork chop / Edward Abbey --
from The snow people / Marie Herbert --
from Six came back / David L. Brainard --
from South / Sir Ernest Shackleton --
from I may be some time / Francis Spufford --
from Beyond Cape Horn / Charles Neider --
from The birthday boys / Beryl Bainbridge