Abandoned at Fossil Bluff

A Remarkable Account of Antarctic Survival

Abandoned at Fossil Bluff
Tim Bowden, Rod Ledingham
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1 Jan 2023 AU
9781922698728
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In the summer of 1967-68 Rod Ledingham was on a mapping high on the Antarctic plateau, driving a sledge dog team. He had been flown in by a light aircraft to take over the other dog team, but after their field work had ended, the aircraft crashed on take-off, fortunately with no casualties to the men or dogs. With no replacement aircraft available, and communications basic to say the least, the pilot and his two passengers had to use the sledge dogs to sledge 200 km along the plateau and down a glacier which had only been travelled once before to a small hut at Fossil Bluff on the coast, where two other BAS personnel were waiting to be flown out. So began a year of basic survival, with five men in a hut designed for four, minimal fuel for heating, no extra clothing and barely enough food. Fully illustrated in colour throughout.
Tim Bowden is a Sydney broadcaster, journalist, radio and television documentary maker, oral historian and author. He was born in Hobart, Tasmania, August 2, 1937, and is married, with two children. He hosted the ABC-TV listener and viewer reaction program ' Backchat' from 1986 to June 1994. He has written 17 books including the best-seller One Crowded Hour. He has made several documentaries for ABC TV, and created the ABC' s Social History Unit.

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