Sir Ranulph Fiennes has spent a lifetime working in conditions of extreme cold - his frostbitten fingers are a testament to the horrors that man can experience in such temperatures, but he also knows that the life he has led owes a great deal to the cold. By turns scientifically rigorous, historically questioning and intensely personal, this is a truly fascinating account of the extreme nature of cold by 'the world's greatest living explorer' }Guinness Book Of Records{. Now available in paperback.