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Sea, Ice and Rock: Putting on the L-plates of Each Other’s Sport Above the Arctic Circle
£2.80
After meeting on the TV programme “The Krypton Factor”, the authors of this book pooled their abilities on a light-hearted sail to Skye to climb the Cuillin Ridge. The Greenland expedition was something much more ambitious. First Robin had to nurse his famous wooden yacht through the enclosing icebergs of Watkins Fjord. Then Chris had to sort out a map discrepancy to identify the mountains they had come to climb. In the end it proved more demanding than expected and they had to turn back 200m below the true summit. But their narrative revels in the exciting climbing potential of the underexplored East Greenland and provides an account of how two very different men discovered a new dimension of adventure.
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by Stuart E. Leggett
Well.written and an enjoyable read …one can identify with the situations and personalities involved. Layout of text and provision of photos is pleasing.
by Cad
A short but enjoyable tale of an expedition to climb a peak in Greenland. The idea was for Chris Bonnington to have a taste of sailing and Robin Knox-Johnson to experience climbing a mountain. It was not without drama, both at sea and on land and demonstrates how intrepid these guys are. Lovely descriptions of the ice-pack and stark beauty of Greenland and although the technical descriptions of both sailing and climbing are at times hard to follow they in fact added to the drama rather than diminished it. Fascinating stuff and well worth a read.