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After the North Pole

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The Norwegian explorer, philosopher and acclaimed writer chronicles his historic day journey to the North Pole on skis in this thought-provoking memoir that is also a profound meditation about nature and our place within it.
The North Pole looms large in our collective psyche—the ultimate Otherland in a world mapped and traversed. It is the center of our planet’s rotation, one of the places that is most vulnerable in an epoch of global climate change. 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.
Erling Kagge and his friend Børge Ousland became the first people “to ever reach the pole without dogs, without depots and without motorized aids,” skiing for 58 days from a drop off point on the ice edge of Canada’s northernmost island.
In magisterial prose, Erling narrates his epic, record-making journey, probing the physical challenges and psychological motivations for embarking on such an epic expedition, the history of the territory’s exploration, its place in legend and art, and the thrilling adventures he experienced duri

After the North Pole: A Story of Survival, Mythmaking, and Melting Ice

February 8,

„Adventure is all about deliberately making life more difficult than it needs to be, and having far less control over yourself and your surroundings”.

Despite the title, this is not a typical adventure book focused on the narrator's exploits. Written a few decades after the heroic journey to the North Pole, it is more a meditation on the human urge to explore and the fascination with polar regions, from ancient times to the present. It is beautiful, lyrical, and informative. The author touches on many topics, from cartography to literature to biographies of many explorers, but the part I loved the most were the snippets that reveal why anyone would choose to travel to such hostile places.

While I can't compare my humble thru-hikes in Sweden or Scotland to Kagge's expeditions, his words rang so true to me because they perfectly capture why I choose to spend my vacations sleeping in a tent and dragging a heavy backpack, in the cold, wind and rain.

Here is another sample: „There has to be a price, some form of discomfort—the cold, wind, thirst, and steep slopes. Satisfaction comes from continuin

The North Pole The History of an Obsession

“Erling Kagge's decades-long obsession with the North Pole has produced an extraordinary book that defies genre: an elegant travel account, a learned history and a psychological thriller wrapped in one”
– Anne Applebaum

“Erling Kagge is a deeply thoughtful writer who has a strong and very individual style. The North Pole proves to be the perfect subject for him”
– Michael Palin

“A beautiful book which is as much about our inner world as our outer one, a book that helps us find the vast calm empty spaces within us and returns us to a feeling of being at home in the world”
– Alain de Botton

“A wonderful book about the sublime, eerie place known as the North Pole. A place that has doubled as a fertile dreamscape as much as a hard, inhospitable landscape for human beings over the centuries. This is the book of a lifetime, from a rare writer-adventurer whose obsession and passion for his subject know no bounds”
– Elif Shafak

“Erling Kagge charts a wondrous way to the North Pole, exploring the marvel and complexity of a place that exists both in reality

Books by Erling Kagge

Silence: In the Age of Noise
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avg rating — 12, ratings — published — 78 editions

Walking. One Step at a Time
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avg rating — 5, ratings — published — 49 editions

I verste fall : overlevelseshåndboka
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avg rating — 4, ratings — published — 27 editions

Philosophy for Polar Explorers
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avg rating — 1, ratings — published — 35 editions

A Poor Collector's Guide to Buying Great Art
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avg rating — ratings — published — 5 editions

Under Manhattan: En reise til New Yorks indre
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avg rating — 48 ratings — published — 8 editions

After the North Pole: A Story of Survival, Mythmaking, and Melting Ice
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avg rating — 40 ratings — published — 5 editions

The North Pole: The History of an Obsession
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avg rating — 21 ratings — published — 3 editions

Erling Kagge Collection 3 Books Set (Philosophy for Polar Explorers[Hardcover], Silence In the Age of Noise, [Hardcover] Walking One Step at a Time)
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