How Long to Read Into the Great Emptiness: Peril and Survival on the Greenland Ice Cap

How Long Does it Take to Read Into the Great Emptiness: Peril and Survival on the Greenland Ice Cap?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 57 minutes to read Into the Great Emptiness: Peril and Survival on the Greenland Ice Cap by David Roberts

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The riveting story of one of the greatest but least-known sagas in the history of exploration from David Roberts, the “dean of adventure writing.” By 1930, no place in the world was less well explored than Greenland. The native Inuit had occupied the relatively accessible west coast for centuries. The east coast, however, was another story. In August 1930, Henry George Watkins (nicknamed “Gino”), a twenty-three-year-old British explorer, led thirteen scientists and explorers on an ambitious expedition to the east coast of Greenland and into its vast and forbidding interior to set up a permanent meteorological base on the icecap, 8,200 feet above sea level. The Ice Cap Station was to be the anchor of a transpolar route of air travel from Europe to North America. The weather on the ice cap was appalling. Fierce storms. Temperatures plunging lower than –50° Fahrenheit in the winter. Watkins’s scheme called for rotating teams of two men each to monitor the station for two months at a time. No one had ever tried to winter over in that hostile landscape, let alone manage a weather station through twelve continuous months. Watkins was younger than anyone under his command. But he had several daring trips to the Arctic under his belt and no one doubted his judgement. The first crisis came in the fall when a snowstorm stranded a resupply mission halfway to the top for many weeks. When they arrived at the ice cap, there were not enough provisions and fuel for another two-man shift, so the station would have to be abandoned. Then team member August Courtauld made an astonishing offer. To enable the mission to go forward, he would monitor the station solo through the winter. When a team went up in March to relieve Courtauld, after weeks of brutal effort to make the 130-mile journey, they could find no trace of him or the station. By the end of March, Courtauld’s situation was desperate. He was buried under an immovable load of frozen snow and was disastrously short on supplies. On April 21, four months after Courtauld began his solitary vigil, Gino Watkins set out inland with two companions to find and rescue him. David Roberts, “veteran mountain climber and chronicler of adventures” (Washington Post), draws on firsthand accounts and archival materials to tell the story of this daring expedition and of the epic survival ordeal that ensued.

How long is Into the Great Emptiness: Peril and Survival on the Greenland Ice Cap?

Into the Great Emptiness: Peril and Survival on the Greenland Ice Cap by David Roberts is 413 pages long, and a total of 104,489 words.

This makes it 139% the length of the average book. It also has 128% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Into the Great Emptiness: Peril and Survival on the Greenland Ice Cap Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 30 minutes to read Into the Great Emptiness: Peril and Survival on the Greenland Ice Cap aloud.

What Reading Level is Into the Great Emptiness: Peril and Survival on the Greenland Ice Cap?

Into the Great Emptiness: Peril and Survival on the Greenland Ice Cap is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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