I have been enthralled by and weeping my eyes out at a mesmerising memoir called Breaking the Ice: Antarctica, climate change and me by David Vaughan.
The vast sheet of ice covering Antarctica holds the fate of humanity in its hands: if it melted, sea levels would rise nearly 60 metres. And we have a better idea of how likely that is, thanks, in part, to the work of Vaughan, who studied the dynamics of this ice for nearly 40 years until his untimely death last year.
He leaves us the inside story of working in the remotest and most…
