The 12th Leg
On January 11th 2007 the inspection ship Vædderen
cast off the
moorings at Lyttelton Harbor in New Zealand and made directly for Antarctica.
The cruise, lasting a month, was part of the Galathea 3
expedition’s circumnavigation of the globe and was designed to collect
data and disseminate scientific research via the Internet, television
and newspapers.
On board the ship was a crew of a hundred men,
consisting of naval forces, journalists, researchers and the fiction
writer Laila Ingrid Rasmussen.
The 12th Leg is the author's
personal and poetic records from this trip. In words and foto a
story about life and death, humans and animals, and an
ocean that are much larger and more empty and misty than you can
imagine, is told.
The 12th Leg
Logbook 2009
Lindhardt og Ringhof
● Press