What is it that draws adventurers to the ends of the earth? Returning home from polar regions is to arrive a dufferent person from the one who never left in the first place.

Latitude Attitude recount the author’s life-enriching experiences in the Arctic and Antarctica. including close encounters of a reindeer kind in Svalbard; total absence of life on frozen Mt Vinson; albatrosses in the stormy Southern Ocean and a Shackleton pilgrimage by Tall Ship from Elephant Island to South Georgia.