Alone

‘Alone’ is a unique and utterly absorbing record of the human will to endure. In March 1934, during his second expedition to Antarctica, Byrd left Little America to life in a tiny hut at Bolling Advance Weather Base. For the next four and a half months he was the only person at Advance Base, where the temperature fell to -83 degrees, with hurricane winds. With no hope of rescue before the spring thaw, he was slowly poisoned by carbon monoxide leaking from a defective stove. What began as a scientific experiment became a struggle for sanity in a dark, freezing, inhuman locale.

Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd (1888-1957) was an international hero, best known for his exploits in pioneer aviation and polar exploration.