New Year's Day, 2009. Somewhere on the bottom of the world, six teams of adventurers and explorers have gathered to race one another, on foot, to the South Pole. It is the first time that anyone has undertaken such a race in almost a hundred years; the first time since the great Norwegian, Roald Amu[...]
Ben Fogle's life has been action-packed to say the least. He has rowed across the Atlantic, walked to the South Pole, run the Sahara and ice-skated across Sweden. He has encountered isolated tribes in deepest Papua New Guinea, caused a Boeing 747 to dump GBP100k of fuel before making an emergency la[...]
Conquering the Atlantic in the World's Toughest Rowing Race. In January 2006, Olympian James Cracknell and TV presenter Ben Fogle completed the world's most terrifying rowing race. This book is the gripping account of their 49 days on the Atlantic Ocean, a life-changing battle not [...]