The Devil's Labyrinth; Encounters with the Arctic

The North Pole has been reached by many people in many ways. But to contemplate traveling across the drifting ice on foot, hauling sledges loaded with enough food, fuel & equipment to sustain life for 100 days, requires men with a rare strain of polar madness. Contending with unseasonable & cripplingly cold temperatures, plus the debilitating pain of frostbite & young thin ice cracking up all around them, they knew that the slightest error of judgment would probably kill them. But there was always the intoxicating wildness & beauty of it all, the thrill of the challenge & their own indomitable wills to keep them going. Color photos.