Overflight Author:Charles Neider A novel of survival.. — BEYOND SURVIVAL IN THE LAND OF ICE -- A STORY OF FEAR, HOPE, AND COURAGE — On November 29, 1979, DC10 Flight Five Zero set out from New Zealand for Antarctica to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Admiral Richard E. Byrd's flight to the South Pole. The plane never reached its destination. It crashed into the deadly, sn... more »ow-draped wall of Mt. Erebus -- the massive, mysterious volcano that spews fire from Antarctica's core. Miraculously, one man, Joel Stevenson, survived, a lone witness to the beauty, majesty and menace of this icy awesome world.
After being rescued, Stevenson was drawn irresistibly back to the site of the devastation: he was determined to confront the haunting power of the frozen white wilderness. This is the extraordinary story of his terror, his guilt, and his obsession -- the story of a man who peered into the heart of our planet's most forbidding continent... and into the farthest reaches of his own soul.« less