New York Times bestselling author Mark Synnott has climbed with Alex Honnold. HeΓÇÖs scaled Mt. Everest. But in 2022,he realized there was a dream heΓÇÖd never realizedΓÇöto sail the Northwest Passage in his own boata feat only four hundred or so sailors had ever accomplishedΓÇöand in doing sotry to solve the mystery of what happened to legendary nineteenth-century explorer Sir John Franklin and his shipsHMS Erebus and Terror. Only a few hundred vessels have ever transited the Northwest Passagestretching through CanadaΓÇÖs north from Maine to AlaskaΓÇöand substantially fewer have completed the treacherous journey in a fiberglass-hulled boat like Polar Sun. But Mark Synnott was determined to add his name to the listand in doing soalso investigate a 175-year-old mysterythat of what happened to the legendary captain Sir John Franklin and his crew aboard the legendary HMS Erebus and HMS Terror. In this pulse-pounding travelogueMark Synnott paints a vivid portrait of the modern-day Arctic like youΓÇÖve never seen before. With human-caused climate change warming the region twice as fast as any other part of our planetSynnott offers a fresh and exciting look at the journey itselfbut also of the history of the land and the people who live there today. At the same timehe searches for the tomb of Franklinwhoalong with his entire 128-man crewperished after their ships became trapped in the ice near King William Island. In Into the IceMark and his crew must race against time and horrific storms to investigate legendsand in the endtry to find the answer to why any of us would risk it all in the name of exploration.