5 Extremes.
This is the genuine adventure of real men!
“It was a profound experience and grand sight. I struggled to survive out from dangers, hardship and fear, and learned the way to fight the piercing cold and hunger. Now, let’s begin this long about from the 28 years of experience in hiking and exploring.”
《Walking on that endless solemn glacier, the only thing I could hear was my ragged breathing!! 》
Surprisingly, there has been many explorers went on a polar expedition, but not many of them recorded their journey in detail. Finishing an exhausting day, keeping a detailed daily journal would be a taxing task for them. However, explorer captain Hong Sung-Taek recorded his daily experience vividly. His journal records the truth our human race is faced with global warning, the situation of the polar region that is only known to the explorers themselves, such as the glaciers swept away to the Pacific, rivers forming in Greenland from melted glaciers, the dark surface of ocean revealing itself after few million years old of glaciers melted away. The worries about global warming is not new to us, but reporting on what is really happening and witnessing them with bare eyes is something that has never done in human history. It was a duty of the explorers to check the site on behalf of the scholars and researchers whom are not able to be there in person. The story of overcoming the unthinkable hardships that one explorer could face during the expedition, his blood and sweat, the flaming passion to step toward the goal is vividly revealed in this book.
With the progress of civilization, we are in the time where we can travel the world as well as the space. However, the dazzling modern civilization does not reflect the value of that era. Until now, there are mysteries in many parts of the world that cannot be solved by human logic and still beyond the reach of human contact. Despite the invention of a plane that can fly across the continents in few hours, explorers are those who walks that unpaved road on their foot in the hope of getting closer to the answer for those unsolved mysteries. No matter how much the civilization evolved, what can be more certain than the facts they have discovered? What is more valuable than the footsteps they have left on the road by testing their limit? Captain Hong Sung-Taek is also someone who always choose to go forward without any doubts. He is someone who never stops until he touches the limit. With his unique philosophy, he never rests his journey to the pole. He always says he would risk everything he owns for the expedition and just like that, he went for the expedition on his own, unsupported. And this book is about the story of his tears and laughter on his expedition which he went on after giving up his wealth and privilege. It is a story of a humble man who stepped into a journey to the end of the earth with nothing but only with the ambition to explore more.
这是真男子汉们的冒险！
“真的是特别的经历和壮丽的景色。我为了在这个地方活下来，做了无数的挣扎，学会了如何在危险、身体高度疲劳、害怕、低温和饥饿的环境中生存下来。就这样过了28年，现在让我们开始听听在这漫长时间内积累的攀登冒险的故事吧。”
《在这广阔的冰川上走了又走，能听到的只有我自己粗重的喘息声！！》
征服极地回来的探险家意外的多，但是能把极地冒险经历仔细的记录下来的探险家少之又少。劳累的一天结束后，疲惫的身体只能瘫倒在地，想要把一天的事情详细的记录下来根本就是不可能的。
但是探险家洪成泽队长将自己每天的经历都完整的记录了下来。因为地球变暖现象而向太平洋移动的无数的冰川，冰川融化，冰川上出现湖水的格陵兰岛，以及数十万年形成的冰川融化后掉入大海，这些景象要是没有探险家，谁也见不到。探险家们为了人类的未来而把这些现象记录下来。
由于地球变暖现象而出现的气候异常，对此的忧虑和担心虽然已经不是一天两天的事情，但是亲眼见到这些现象后记录下来的报告书却是史无前例的。因为学者或研究人员没法亲自去到这些极限的环境中去确认，因此这个任务自然而然就成了探险家们的事情，他们不得不亲自去极限环境的土地上。这些探险家在探险的时候经历和克服的各种困难和无法想象的难关，这些故事是为了将他们火热的影响力原封不动的传递到读者们的心里。那些热血的经历栩栩如生的记录在这本书中。
由于人类文明的发展，人们不仅开始了探索地球的每个角落的时代，还进入了探索宇宙的时代。但是发展的科学文明并不能表示这个时代的价值。至今地球上仍然有许多人类智慧无法破解的地方，以及还有许许多多没有人类足迹的地方。探险家们默默的走上了这些谜一样的路，对这些步行几个小时的距离进行探索。
即使再怎么发达的文明能比他们亲自走过亲身体验记录的事实更加准确吗？还有比他们挑战人类极限亲身体验的足迹更加有价值的东西吗？洪成泽队长是毫无疑问向前走的人。在确认不行之前必需前进，靠着自己优秀独特的哲学一步步征服极地的人。
他曾说只要是为了探险，可以用尽自己的所有财产，又这样独自一人踏上了探险之路。用尽自己的所有财产和放弃自己的所有利益走上的征程，在这征途中哭过笑过的故事全都在这本书中。这本书描写了因为喜欢探险，想要来一场像样的探险，便怀着一颗无比谦虚的心，一步一步走向地球尽头的故事。