On January 17, 1913, Alone and near starvation, Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to base camp.
It is illustrated by a trove of Frank Hurley\'s famous Antarctic photographs, many never before published in the United States..
On February 8, when he staggered back to base, his features unrecognizably skeletal, the first teammate to reach him blurted out, Which one are you? This thrilling and almost unbelievable account establishes Mawson in his rightful place as one of the Greatest polar explorers and expedition leaders.
Mawson was sometimes reduced to crawling, and one night he discovered that the soles of his feet had completely detached from the flesh beneath.
A line of poetry gave him the will to haul himself back to the surface.
Now Mawson himself plunged through a snow bridge, dangling over an abyss by the sledge harness.
The dogs were gone.
On January 17, 1913, Alone and near starvation, Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to base camp
