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The Crossing of Antarctica
book by Fuchs and Hillary
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- In Edmund Hillary
…and recorded this feat in The Crossing of Antarctica (1958; with Fuchs) and No Latitude for Error (1961). On his expedition of Antarctica in 1967, he was among those who scaled Mount Herschel (10,941 feet [3,335 meters]) for the first time. In 1977 he led the first jet boat expedition…
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…explorer, he coauthored the book The Crossing of Antarctica (1958). Fuchs later ran the British Antarctic Survey (1958–73), and in 1990 his autobiography, A Time to Speak, was published. He was knighted in 1958.
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