Alone on the Ice Quotes

“Just have one more try—it’s dead easy to die, It’s the keeping-on-living that’s hard.”
― David Roberts, Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration

“Since 1969, more than 30,000 specimens of stone from outer space that have survived their headlong plunge through the earth’s atmosphere have been recovered from the southern continent. One of them, retrieved in 2003, has been proven, thanks to a remarkable analysis by spectrograph, to have once been part of the planet Mars.”
― David Roberts, Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration

“On those occasions when a bit of wine or liquor was served with dinner, toasts echoed around the table. The most frequently uttered was “To our sweethearts and wives—may they never meet.”
― David Roberts, Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration

“Since 1831, the North Magnetic Pole has drifted almost 700 miles, generally in a westerly direction. It is currently migrating at a pace of about 25 miles per year.”
― David Roberts, Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration

“The ultimate success of Amundsen’s expedition in reaching the South Pole in December 1911 would depend on two crucial logistical choices: the decision to use skis and the reliance on dog teams to haul the sledges. It was the tried-and-true Norwegian style of polar travel, but one that British explorers never fully embraced.”
― David Roberts, Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration

“We dwelt on the fringe of an unspanned continent, where the chill breath of a vast, polar wilderness, quickening to the rushing might of eternal blizzards, surged to the northern seas. We had discovered an accursed country. We had found the Home of the Blizzard.”
― David Roberts, Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration