Sixty Degrees South – Beyond the Ice Wall

A review of “Sixty Degrees South – Beyond the Ice Wall,” a novel by Andy Ross and John Hamer. The majority of the images which accompany this Rogue Cast are copyright free and  courtesy of Flat Earth Dave.

As a man of a certain vintage, I have a fond recollection of the books, comics and films that I read and watched as a boy.

It just so happened that I received a copy of Sixty Degrees South from John (thank-you very much, Mr Hamer) at a time when I was contemplating a man-boy’s insatiable pull towards and capacity for tales of heroism, derring do and exploration. In fact, I recently recorded an essay on this very subject, entitled, “From Heroes to Zeroes”.

The point I made was that, in his natural state, a boy will gravitate towards certain activities and modes of thinking. This is, quite simply, how he is, his essential state of being.

It is no exaggeration to suggest that the mind-benders who inhabit the government and its systems of indoctrination (schools, universities, a compliant media) are most keen to rinse out his boyish tendencies in order that he will become a compliant and unquestioning automaton, who has become somewhat feminised.

However, the systems of brain-washing can only be of effect for a limited time – or, at least until the boy becomes a man and has to pay off a void mortgage, raise children and manage his family, including his wife and the associated responsibilities. Whilst most fall into line, like obedient sheep, there will always be those individuals who stand independently of the flock – not so much sheep, as sturdy and staunchly individual goats.

Some of us are in love with the Truth and are compelled to dig down into the facts, no matter how unpalatable they may be to the majority of those who pass themselves off as men.
Indeed, there are numerous reasons why a man would seek the Truth about the nature of what is known as reality.

In no particular order, here are some:

• From a young age, a man is fired by a natural curiosity to know stuff, how things work in every sense
• He wants to know where he is – places, oceans, compasses and maps fascinate him.
• He has an instinctive pull towards mysteries, to questions and to find out the nature of the realm in which he finds himself.
• At an early age, he seeks out heroic figures – through reading, comic books, movies, sports and men in his own life. Each hero is characterised by courage, daring, strength in the face of adversity, a coolness of mind necessary to solve problems, an ability to defend himself and his loved ones. In some cases, the boy will be inspired by the actions of those heroes he reads about.
• Gadgets, tools and weaponry are his to hold, their value to him is clear.

Those who would misdirect him into a collectivist mindset begin their indoctrination of him at an early age – he is shown a ball and told that this is called a Globe and it is the shape of the ‘world’ on which he stands. But is that true? The map below is by Buckminster Fuller and is offered up to suggest that all is not as it seems and the actual dimensions of our world is not  as we have been told.

On a personal note, I can remember asking my dad how, if we are on a giant ball, the people of Australia do not fall off as they would be upside down. He laughed and told me it was “gravity”.

To this day,  I well remember a sense of discombobulation upon hearing his ‘explanation’: my natural common sense made it plain to me that we cannot be on a giant ball. And yet, ‘science’ seemed determined to deny the evidence of my own logic and senses.

And so the boy is fed the lie of gravity and that he’s a minuscule accident of creation, standing on a rock-ball which is hurtling through space at vast speeds whilst it circles the sun. He is told the sun is 93 million miles away.

Mind-boggled by these numbers and what he is told is the vast infinity of ‘space’, he is then fed a diet of ‘Science Fiction’, designed to capture his mind with the false notion that space travel is a reality.

And so it goes, on and on.

However, being based on nothing more than tissue-thin falsehoods, the programming is wont to break down.

Later, it came to my attention that there is no evidence that we are on a ‘globe’ – that experiments in curvature, flight paths, perspective and depth of field demonstrate beyond doubt that whatever this realm may be, we are not spinning through space or going round the sun and, of course, that there is no such thing as space travel, the sky being a revolving clock of bodies called ‘stars’ and ‘planets’ that turns above us around the focal point of the North Star.

There is much ancient cosmology and modelling of the ‘world’ that demonstrates the knowledge of our ancestors was based on the notion of a firmament above us and that we are at the heart of the universe, on a still plane, a divine construct, that exists as a gargantuan classroom for the edification of our individual souls.

With that preamble out of the way, let’s begin the review “Sixty Degrees South – Beyond the Ice Wall” by Andy Ross and John Hamer.

The premise of the novel is that due to the Antarctic Treaty of 1959, no civilian of any country is permitted to travel any further South beyond the 60th degree of latitude. When private individuals attempt it, they will be ordered to turn back. Should they disobey the order, then the vehicle – plane or boat – will come under fire.

In this story, two British air pilots, Adam and Dobbo, are deployed on a remote air base south of Chile, near the 60th degree to do just that.

When Adam’s military and social programming begins to break down, he goes rogue, with Dobbo, reluctantly at first, following suit.

There follows what is best described as a full-on Boys’ Own Adventure – the tale features all manner of gadgetry – from the vintage jet fighters the two men use, to weaponry and a ‘med-bed’ which will cure any and all ailments and injuries in a matter of minutes.

As with all such tales, there is a villain or two and it is their corrupt superior (Prendagast) who is the chief miscreant in this case.

Interwoven with the heroes’ narrative, there are revelatory passages, discourses and curious mysteries surrounding Antarctica, its dimensions, its status and previous explorations.

No true boy, young or old, will fail to be grabbed by the essential mystery of it all. After all, a man does not stop learning once he leaves the indoctrination centre of his youth. Exploration, I would posit, is his natural proclivity.

The authors are clearly ‘old boys’ who have maintained a healthy disregard for mainstream narratives and a love of exploration, problem solving, adventure and the Truth.

Thus, Sixty Degrees is a marvellous boys’ own adventure, a delightful blend of fact and fiction, woven with the threads of the discoveries of previous adventurers like Scott (of the Antarctic), sailors of yesteryear – like Captains James Cook and James Ross, whose journeys took them thousands of miles along the 2 mile high ice wall and which were, literally, endless and, inevitably, the discoveries of Admiral Byrd and the ensuing attempts to hide them from the public.

The Truth is Stranger Than Fiction is the aphorism which keeps gently chiming in my mind as I read the book. Whilst the central narrative of the two heroes is fictional, the interweaving of the facts regarding Antarctica as well as the mysteries of New Schwabenland, the evidence of the Third Reich’s establishment of a break-away civilisation there, the curious disappearance of Amelia Earhart and her navigator all combine to make it a compelling read.

There is also the fact that there are maps from the 1500s which show Antarctica to be free of snow and ice. Naturally, any man with a questioning mind and a curiosity about the realm he is in, will be drawn to seeking answers to these mysteries.

Therefore, it’s plain to state that given the secrecy and the nagging sense that we have been lied to about the nature of our realm, the desire for exploration will rise in many men who would love to explore the region, map its area and investigate exactly who or what is to be found there. In that sense, Sixty Degrees may prove to be somewhat visionary as more and more men seek to explore the region beyond the Ice Wall.

Ross and Hamer’s conjecture is that there are vast lands beyond the Ice Wall, resources and civilisations which are demonstrably kept secret from the public.

Why has the actual nature of this realm been so successfully hidden from us?

The answer, I would posit, is that the mind-benders, who are in service to the forces of the demiurge, want to ensnare everyone in a web of lies. If a man does not know where he is, then he is, quite literally, lost.

Lost in a Godless universe, where, according to uniformitarian narratives, he is but an accident of evolution, somehow washed up on a ball-shaped rock that is hurtling through space. Lost in a meaningless virtual prison for his mind and his soul.

Uniformitarian belief would have us trapped in a false perception of chronology and falsified history (incidentally John Hamer has written and published a book, entitled, The Falsification of History) – in which everything is evolving – subject to vast stretches of time, a world in which he there is no Divine Creation, only accidents, with no recorded history of those cataclysms which are periodic in their repetition and whose occurrences were marked and set in stone for future generations to know about and prepare for accordingly.

A young man, filled with boundless curiosity to find out exactly where he is, will naturally seek the answers to who and what he is,  how he fits into the chronology of the world and what are the dimensions of the reality in which he finds himself.

That is the natural spirit of man and hence there is immeasurable power to be gleaned from the Boys’ Own stories that come into his purview.

It thus follows that to describe Sixty Degrees South as a classic of the Boys’ Own genre is to praise the spirit in which it was written and the subject matter, which is vast in its scope. It’s also worth stating that the two authors manifestly enjoyed writing it and that, inevitably, adds to the reader’s own enjoyment of the novel.

Adam and Dobbo are the two heroes and their story is an exciting one involving jet-fighter technology, hidden and classified information, a treacherous system of command, populated by dodgy characters, dog-fights, travel to uncharted lands, healing technologies and civilisations without deceptive hierarchies that are built on the Golden Rule,

“Do Unto Others As You Would Have Them Do Unto You.”

The interwoven historical narratives – the mysteries of Captains Cook and Ross who attempted to find a way through the Ice Wall (below), of Scott of the Antarctic, the sinking of the Titanic (and its associations with the 1913 foundation of the financial fraud that is the Federal Reserve), the explorations and revelations of Admiral Byrd, Amelia Earhart’s strange disappearance, James Forestall’s association with Byrd and his dubious death and the activities of the Third Reich in Antarctica – jointly and severally add to the quality of the book.

It’s interesting to note also that there are many strange anomalies concerning what is known as the North Pole – similarly has a forbidden flight zone and is another extreme region explored by Admiral Byrd. The Smoky God is a novel that is also based on the supposedly factual exploration of a youth and his father who sailed far North to discover advanced beings living in a hollow earth, whose entry point is accessible from beyond the North Pole and which are detailed in The Smoky God. Asgard, Agartha and Shambala are names given to these realms that exist deep underground and which were well-known to the ancients.

Whilst the Truth is invariably stranger than fiction, it’s also the case that fiction can be used to convey the Truth and that the suspension of disbelief allows for its transmission into the imagination of the reader.

Sixty Degrees South exemplifies the point perfectly: it is a fictional adventure story rooted in the facts and mysteries surrounding the ‘forbidden zone’ and, in that sense, what Andy Ross and John Hamer have written is a rip-roaring yarn, a tale of incredible discovery – which includes a requisite map (see above) – and the sort of heroic challenges that any boy, young or old, will love. Why? On the simple basis that it will fire his imagination and determination to make sense of the realm he finds himself in (though not of).

At some point, he may well come to the realisation that he is a holy sojourner, passing through a divine construct that is a university for his soul, filled with trials, tribulations and triumphs that constantly test him. Which, whether we like it or not, is simply how it is:

“Our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world.”

Ephesians 6:12

All of which, ultimately, is his raison d’être – the very point of his life and all his natural proclivities to find out who/what he is and where he exists in the great scheme of things.

As Alexander Pope wrote,

“The Truth is Beauty; Beauty is Truth
That is All on Earth Ye need to Know.”

Sixty Degrees South is available at John’s website and Amazon.

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“1) If the Earth rotated about its polar axis, it would have to be moving fastest at the equator and slower at each mile closer to the north and south poles. Theoretically, the tiny point at each pole would not be moving at all. (We will explain this proof below, after listing a few additional points.)” […]
“4) If the Earth was rotating as we are told (i.e., from west to east in direction), an airplane would have to travel much faster to fly from Los Angeles to Miami than from Miami to Los Angeles. And the required speed to fly west-to-east at cities close to the equator would be much greater than speed needed to go from, say, Toronto to Moscow (since the Earth’s speed of rotation closer to the North Pole would be less than farther to the south).”    Source