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I worked briefly for the author's co-adventurer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes who was quite unbelievably charming and almost as handsome (I'm surprised the ice didn't melt before his feet, so hot was he). I might have stayed in that job if he'd been there more often but he was away, arranging another trek most of the time. Baronets and world-famous explorers don't have the same work structures as the rest of us!
The author, especially at the end, has a very ambivalent attitude towards Ran's public retelling of their assault on the South Pole, and it seemed almost as if he wrote the book to justify his own, joint part in it, and for that pettiness which made me think of girls-in-the-toilet bitching about their friends on the dance floor, the book gets three rather than four stars.
PS They made it up and are best of friends again and even did seven marathons in seven countries on seven consecutive days together. Explorers and adventurers are just different from the rest of us. ( )