Hampton Sides is an award-winning editor of Outside and the New York Times bestselling author of the historical books Ghost Soldiers, a World War II story that was the basis for the film The Great Raid; Blood and Thunder, about controversial frontiersman Kit Carson; and Hellhound On His Trail, about the manhunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassin, James Earl Ray. His new book In the Kingdom of Ice is a suspenseful Gilded Age story of seafaring, exploration, in the race to the North Pole, the most unforgiving territory on Earth.