Title:"At night and in the ice".
Author: Fridtjof Nansen.
Editorial: Editorial Planeta.
Sentence: "My back was all I wanted in life. What had before me?».
Critical Vap: Nansen es, with permission from Amundsen, the largest Norwegian explorer of all time and that, in a town accustomed to pushing their children "into the vast unknown spaces saturated with adventure", It is an excellent business card. Nansen starred, between 1893 and 1896, one of the most memorable feats polar. Convinced that allow ocean currents to cross the Arctic Circle, He embarked on the "Fram" (later in Norwegian, A declaration of intentions) willing to be led by the drift of the ice cap in the Kara Sea. His goal was as simple as foolhardy: «We will cross the ice in a northerly direction as far as possible». And 16 months only advanced 360 miles, But that's not important. Facing down adversity, He dismounted and using a sledge managed to reach the northernmost latitude hitherto trodden by any human being. Nansen's journal distilled narrative epics capitalized, those not detract to the legendary Ulysses, because, After the, as the author rightly emphasizes, «What would life be worth without your dreams??»
«Towards wild routes», Jon Krakauer
Sentence: “No hay nada más perjudicial para el espíritu aventurero que la idea de un futuro estable".
