How many poles of our planet can you name? Two? Four? Six? Meanwhile, there are eight. Frederik Paulsen, the "collector of the poles", spent 13 years to visit them all. He traveled tens of thousands of kilometers on airplanes, helicopters, ships and even deep-sea descent vehicles, not to mention ski crossings.Journey through the pages of this book will be a journey with the main character and his friends into the world of cold and silence . But not only. You will learn a lot of interesting things about the Arctic and Antarctic, and most importantly, you will understand that in our time there are people who are ready to devote their lives to polar research, there are brave polar pilots and submariners, winterers and captains. The era of great discoveries continues!