Part 1: The Last Footsteps, Bering Sea

Part 2: The White Apocalypse, Greenland
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Greenland reconnaissance aircraft
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Back to Greenland
3.
Greenland Environmental Report

Part 3: From Dark Night to White Night, the North Pole

Part 4: The Land of Life and Death, Qomolangma

Part 5: Where the White Wind Blows, South Pole

The world's first successful walking expedition across the Bering Strait
This is the adventure of real men!

“It was truly an incredible experience and a magnificent sight.

I had to struggle to come back alive every time I was here.
How to overcome danger and hardship, fatigue and fear, cold and hunger
I learned how to deal with it.
“So, I would like to start telling you the long story I have gained through climbing and exploring over the past 28 years.”

The sound you hear as you walk and walk on the vast glacier is
Only my heavy breathing!!

There are surprisingly many cases of explorers conquering the poles and returning.
However, few explorers have left detailed records of their journeys.
After a long day, you're bound to collapse from exhaustion, so it's probably impossible to write down the details of your day.
However, explorer Captain Hong Seong-taek kept a complete record of his experiences every day.
This is a record of polar conditions that only explorers would know about, for the future of humanity, such as countless glaciers drifting into the Pacific Ocean due to global warming, Greenland where glaciers melted and lakes formed on top of glaciers, and the ocean where hundreds of thousands of years of ice melted and revealed a dark appearance.
Concerns about abnormal climate caused by global warming are a common occurrence, but a report that confirms the extent of the problem with one's own eyes and reveals it in such detail is unprecedented in human history.
Scholars and researchers cannot go to extreme places to verify things directly, so they naturally rushed to extreme lands, thinking that it was the role of explorers.
Moreover, the author's passionate desire to achieve his goal is fully conveyed to the reader's heart through the story of overcoming all kinds of difficulties and unexpected challenges encountered during exploration.
This book vividly reveals the record of that intense experience.

With the development of civilization, mankind has entered an era of exploring not only every corner of the Earth but also space.
However, the developing scientific civilization does not reflect the values ​​of the time.
There are still many places on Earth where human wisdom has not yet solved the mystery, and there are also many places that are difficult for humans to visit.
The explorer walks silently along that mysterious path, exploring a distance that can be covered in just a few hours.
No matter how advanced civilization becomes, can it ever be as accurate as the meticulously documented facts they meticulously traced as they walked? Is there anything more valuable than the footsteps they left behind, experiences they gained while challenging the limits of human existence? Captain Hong Seong-taek, too, is a man who moves forward without question.
He is a person who takes one step at a time toward the extreme with his own unique philosophy, feeling relieved that he must move forward until he knows it is impossible.
He said that he would not mind giving up all his wealth for the sake of exploration, and he set out on the expedition on his own without any help from others.
This book is a story of laughter and tears on the road of giving up all one's wealth and all one's vested interests.
The story of a man who, as an explorer who loved to explore, set out on an expedition and walked to the ends of the Earth with an infinitely humble heart unfolds in an exciting way.

Have you ever met the world's first pentagonal man?

Part 1 is the story of the world's first successful foot exploration of the Bering Strait, a straight-line distance of approximately 90 kilometers from Prospekt, Russia, to Nome, Alaska.
Captain Park Young-seok, who had already promised to join Captain Hong Seong-taek on the Bering Strait expedition that had failed once, did not return from Annapurna.
To keep that promise, General Hong Seong-taek left for the Bering Strait.
This is a moving story of four team members who fought against the cold and darkness for 20 hours without a sip of water or a wink of sleep on the Mongolian Route, which could be the last human footprint due to the melting ice caused by global warming.

The second part is Greenland, the world's largest island, covered by ice for over 80 percent, with ice up to 3,000 meters thick.
The team and their purebred Greenland dogs become one and embark on a long journey of 2,600 kilometers across the glacier.
This expedition, in which three members shared one pack of ramen a day for almost a week while crossing Greenland, is also a world first.
It also reveals for the first time in the world that glaciers melt and rivers flow over them.

Part 3 is about the world's most extreme Arctic, which we explored together with Captain Park Young-seok during his lifetime.
Four members of the team walk alone for over 1,000 kilometers across the icy terrain, pulling a sled weighing 100 kilograms, in the midst of blizzards and whiteouts.
The team members arrive at the North Pole, enduring the pain of freezing their entire bodies after falling into the gaping black mouth of the North Pole several times.
The late Captain Park Young-seok achieved a mountaineering grand slam through this expedition.

Part 4 tells the story of the expedition to Qomolangma, the world's highest mountain, where two members lost body parts and two Sherpas lost their lives.
The sight of the team members heading to the summit, facing the unbearable dangers of avalanches that occur in the blink of an eye, winds that blow them away, and crevasses hidden everywhere, makes one question the limits of human existence.
This is a story I really want to share with the countless mountaineers heading to the Himalayas today.

Part 5 is the hellish Antarctica.
It is the first success for a Korean, the fourth in the world, and the shortest time to reach the South Pole from base camp, at 44 days.
This expedition was led by Captain Heo Young-ho, and it is a heartbreaking story of how the team members, who had been powerless in the Antarctic cold, rose again with strong will and safely reached the South Pole.