"A dazzling book — soulful awe-inspiring and deeply thought-provoking. Erling Kagge takes
readers on a journey they’ll never forget." — Jonathan Eig Pulitzer Prize-winning author of
King: A Life " After the North Pole is a thrilling insightful and magical journey with
something to interest readers of all stripes." — Shelf Awareness From acclaimed Norwegian
explorer philosopher and writer Erling Kagge comes the astounding story of his record-setting
58-day journey on skis to the North Pole laced with profound meditations on nature other
daredevils and the history of our obsession with the Pole. “The numbers are uncertain but in
the twentieth century it is estimated that around a thousand men tried to reach the North
Pole... of those 751 have died doing so.” — Erling Kagge The North Pole is the ultimate
Otherland in a world mapped and traversed. It is the center of our planet’s rotation. Its
sub-zero temperatures and strange year of one sunset and one sunrise make it an eerie utterly
disorienting place that challenges human endurance and understanding. Kagge and his friend
Børge Ousland became the first people to ever reach the pole without any support from man or
machine skiing for 58 days from a drop-off point on the ice edge of Canada’s northernmost
island. Erling whose books often top 'best of' lists probes: the physical challenges and
psychological motivations for embarking on such an epic expedition the extensive history of the
territory’s exploration—marked as it was by scandal murder shipwreck shifting ice and
roaming polar bears its place in legend and art and the thrilling adventures he experienced
during the trek. It is yet another example of what bestselling author Robert Macfarlane has
called “Kagge’s extraordinary life in wild places.” As majestic mesmerizing and monumental as
the terrain it captures After the North Pole is for anyone who has gazed out at the
horizon—and wondered what happens if you keep going. After the North Pole is illustrated with
12-14 photographs. Translated from the Norwegian by Kari Dickson. “It's impossible to read
Erling Kagge and not fall in love with the North Pole. His enthusiasm is infectious and his
adventures are epic.” — Elizabeth Kolbert Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth
Extinction
