{"product_id":"9780593471524","title":"Into the Ice: The Northwest Passage, the Polar Sun, and a 175-Year-Old Mystery","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author Mark Synnott has climbed with Alex Honnold. He’s scaled Mount Everest. He's pioneered big-wall first ascents, including the north-west face of the mile-high Great Trango Tower, and skied monster first descents. But in 2022, he realized there was a dream he’d yet to achieve: to sail the Northwest Passage in his own boat— a feat only four hundred or so sailors have ever accomplished—and in doing so, try to solve the mystery of what happened to legendary nineteenth-century explorer Sir John Franklin and his ships, HMS \u003ci\u003eErebus\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTerror\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOnly a few hundred vessels have ever transited the Northwest Passage, and substantially fewer have done so in a fiberglass-hulled boat like Polar Sun. But Mark was determined to return to the Arctic, where he cut his teeth as a young climber, and in the process investigate one of the great mysteries of exploration: What really happened to Sir John Franklin and his entire 128-man crew, which disappeared into these ice-strewn waters 175 years ago? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this pulse-pounding travelogue, Mark Synnott paints a vivid portrait of the Arctic, which is currently warming twice as fast as any other part of our planet. He weaves its history and people into the first-person account of his epic journey through the Northwest Passage, searching for Franklin's tomb along the way— all while trying to avoid a similar fate. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eInto the Ice\u003c\/i\u003e, Mark and his crew race against time and treachero's storms in search of answers to the greatest mystery of all time: What is it that drives someone to risk it all in the name of exploration?","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42369822359613,"sku":"9780593471524","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780593471524_p0.jpg?v=1771575250","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9780593471524","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}