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In the Ghost Country: a Lifetime Spent on the Edge.

Publication: The Wilson Quarterly
Publication Date: 01-JAN-04 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: In the Ghost Country: a Lifetime Spent on the Edge.(Book Review)

Article Excerpt
By Peter Hillary and John E. Elder. Free Press. 341 pp. $26

In 1998, Peter Hillary and two fellow adventurers set out to duplicate Robert Falcon Scott's legendary attempt to travel on foot from McMurdo Sound to the South Pole and back again. Scott reached the pole (only to discover that Roald Amundsen had beaten him to it) but died on the way back. Hillary and his team didn't manage the Antarctic roundtrip either, though instead of...

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