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Documents the behavior of the unique animals that make the poles their home, with color photographs of vast frozen landscapes, the remote interior of the Antarctic continent, the migration of the whales to the polar regions, the heart of the glaciers, and inside volcanic ice-crystal caves.
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At fourteen-year-old, Hameister had a dream: to complete the Polar Hat Trick: expeditions to the North Pole, across the Greenland ice sheet, and to the North Pole. At sixteen she became the youngest person in history to complete it. She endured extremes of cold and blizzards; treacherous terrain where one wrong step could be fatal; struggled through sastrugi, ice rubble and emotional lows to achieve an extraordinary goal. And along the way, she made...