The Arctic Ocean is perhaps man’s toughest challenge: extreme and cruel cold, churning pack ice, bottomless leads and the hungry, ever-prowling polar bears, Fog, wind and ceaseless currents. Up there, an inferno of threatening elements lies in wait. In 1895 Fridtjof Nansen and Hjalmar Johansen had to battle against all this, from the time they left the ice-bound Fram and headed for the North Pole, until they miraculously arrived at Vardø the following year. The story has enthralled people for more than a century, and continues to do so today.

In 2007 Børge Ousland and Thomas Ulrich followed in the footsteps of Nansen and Johansen, from the North Pole, through Franz Josef Land, across the Barents Sea and on to Oslo. Both stories are told here by the man who knows the Arctic Ocean better than anyone. 

The World  €58 (Euro) Shipment included
Europa       €52 (Euro) Shipment included
Norway      €44 (Euro) Shipment included