On Thin Ice: A Woman's Journey to the North Pole (Hardcover)

by Matty L McNair (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 155 pages
• Publisher: NorthWinds (1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0968534309
• ISBN-13: 978-0968534304
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #970,338 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars On Thin Ice: A Woman's Journey to the North Pole, November 10, 2008

By	Henry T. Brown - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Mattie Mcnair shows how women can coordinate complex and dangerous treks in a disappearing Arctic. The ice constantly moves in the Arctic. The skiers must face constant changes. She elaborates survival by planning. She may show Roald Amundsen's almost fanatic ski sense.
She plans fast and quick travel methods that should be studied by any winter traveler. Her personality binds people to their task and captures their feelings to motivate them in difficult and life threatening polar situations. She guides the weary through ice puzzles that most men would die in.

Farley Mowat describes elegantly the failure of male Artic expeditions. She describes repeated female successes. Jennifer Niven describes in the "Ice Master" the loss of Karluk and all the crew in the Arctic.
Mcnair may be the last Ice Master. She elevates the polar experience into a survival memoir. She marvels in the beauty of a rapidly disappearing wilderness. She has created the last adventure novel of the forgotten Arctic.

She has motviated a generation to better understand the Arctic before it is gone. I thank her for guiding the next generation to recreate the Arctic by controlling global warming.