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This guide is not a comprehensive travel guide to the polar regions, nor is it intended to lead you by the hand through all you have to do before setting foot on the ice. It is more an in-depth record of my accumulated experiences in almost 20 years of life-enhancing polar expeditions. I can clearly recall my first no-budget, no-knowledge, no-idea trips, when I made a long list of ‘things to do better’ in my daybook. I still come home from every expedition with a similar list – and have included most of that information in this book.

We all like to do things in a particular way, and there are many different ways to achieve our goals. This guide aims to provide a comprehensive insight to the surprisingly complex art of preparing yourself well, with information on equipment, surviving in the cold, making camp, efficient progress on the ice, problem solving, reading nature's signals and much more. For those who have already undertaken some polar travel, this book will offer advice on different routines and will give them an opportunity to review their equipment and techniques.