In 1957 and 1958 the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition drove tractors two thousand miles across the continent through the pole, the first surface crossing ever made, with Hillary’s team laying depots from the far side. George Lowe was the expedition photographer and the last surviving member, and this book is his archive — hundreds of images, many never published — with his own recollections and Lewis-Jones supplying the history. Tractors in crevasse fields, men in windproofs, huts, dogs, and the plateau going on forever.
The Crossing of Antarctica