{"product_id":"against-the-ice","title":"Against the Ice","description":"\u003ch1 class=\"product-meta__title heading h1\"\u003eAgainst the Ice\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan class=\"src-ems\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eSoon to be a Netflix feature film co-written by and starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game of Thrones)\n\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe harrowing, amazing, and often amusing personal account of two mismatched Arctic explorers who banded together to keep themselves sane on an historic expedition gone horribly wrong\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEjnar Mikkelsen was devoted to Arctic exploration. In 1910 he decided to search for the diaries of the ill-fated Mylius-Erichsen expedition, which had set out to prove that Robert Peary’s outline of the East Greenland coast was a myth, erroneous and presumably self-serving. Iver Iversen was a mechanic who joined Mikkelsen in Iceland when the expedition’s boat needed repair.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSeveral months later, Mikkelsen and Iversen embarked on an incredible journey during which they would suffer every imaginable Arctic travail: implacable cold, scurvy, starvation, frostbite, snow blindness, plunges into icy seawater, impossible sledding conditions, Vitamin A poisoning, debilitated dogs, apocalyptic storms, gaping crevasses, and assorted mortifications of the flesh. Mikkelsen’s diary was even eaten by a bear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThree years of this, coupled with seemingly no hope of rescue, would drive most crazy, yet the two retained both their sanity as well as their humor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndeed, what may have saved them was their refusal to become as desolate as their surroundings…\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNikolaj Coster-Waldau, who co-adapted the book into a screenplay, provides a new foreword to this brand-new edition of the classic exploration memoir, which was one of The Explorer’s Club’s 100 Best Books of the 20th Century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginally published as \u003ci\u003eTwo Against the Ice:\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eA Classic Arctic Survival Story and a Remarkable Account of Companionship in the Face of Adversity.\u003c\/i\u003e Translated from the Danish by Maurice Michael.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e224 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pve_illustrationNote  textSmall\"\u003e8 PAGES OF B\u0026amp;W IMAGES\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pve_measure\"\u003e8.2 in H | 5.5 in W\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Stabo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48493406093557,"sku":"HIB 165","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0814\/5325\/2853\/files\/woo-35215-1-bookagainsttheice.jpg?v=1785444982","url":"https:\/\/staboimports.com\/products\/against-the-ice","provider":"Stabo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}