Almost 100 years ago, on Dec. 14, 1911, Norwegian explorer Roald
Amundsen was the first to reach the South Pole. Now, in the
centennial year of Antarctic exploration, Carleton College has
published a new edition of “Cold: The Record of an Antarctic
Sledge Journey.” Originally published in 1931 and written by
Carleton’s fourth president, Laurence McKinley Gould, “Cold” is
the riveting, first-hand account of Gould’s extraordinary
experience serving as chief scientist and Second-in-Command in
the infamous Admiral Richard E. Byrd Antarctic Expedition from
1928-30. Gould’s account of the grueling five-person, fifteen
hundred-mile dog-sled journey through Antarctica during this era
of heroic exploration remains a classic piece of polar
literature. Out-of-print for years, the new edition of “Cold” is
a tremendous adventure story full of scientific milestones,
including its account of the first ever airplane flight over the
South Pole, as well as the first geographical and glaciological
survey of the area (which Goul