Deep in the wild Southern Ocean, halfway between Australia and South Africa, a snowy volcano, almost three thousand metres high, rears up from the sea like a great white whale. Five times it tried to kill the first team that sought to reach its summit. Yet in 1964, back they sailed, through the worst seas in the world, to try again, this time with legendary explorer, Bill Tilman as their skipper. This is the extraordinary tale of those first attempts to climb Big Ben, the smoking glacier ringed volcano on Heard Island, Australia’s loneliest, most remote outpost, told by those who were there. One of the least known yet most audacious adventure tales of the mid 20th century.

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