Against the Ice

Plt;bPgt;Now a major Netflix film co-written by and starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Plt;iPgt;Game of ThronesPlt;/iPgt;)Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;The 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 wrongPlt;/bPgt;

Plt;bPgt;Now a major Netflix film co-written by and starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Plt;iPgt;Game of ThronesPlt;/iPgt;)Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;The 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 wrongPlt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Ejnar 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 PearyP#8217;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 expeditionP#8217;s boat needed repair.Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Several 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. MikkelsenP#8217;s diary was even eaten by a bear.Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Three 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.Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Indeed, what may have saved them was their refusal to become as desolate as their surroundingsP#8230;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, who co-adapted the book into a screenplay, provides the foreword to this new edition of the classic exploration memoir, which was one of The ExplorerP#39;s ClubP#8217;s 100 Best Books of the 20th Century.Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Originally published as Plt;iPgt;Two Against the Ice: A Classic Arctic Survival Story and a Remarkable Account of Companionship in the Face of Adversity. Plt;/iPgt;Translated from the Danish by Maurice Michael.