SPEAR17
Route: Hercules Inlet – South Pole – Ross Ice Shelf
Skiers: Alex Brazier (UK), Chris Brooke (UK), James Facer-Childs (UK), Alun George (UK), Ollie Stoten (UK), Lou Rudd (UK, Expedition Leader)
Команда отставных военных идет самый длинный лыжный поход сезона. Все подрумянились.
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JOHANNA DAVIDSSON: SOLO SISTER TO THE SOUTH POLE
Route: Hercules Inlet – South Pole – Hercules Inlet
Skier: Johanna Davidsson (Sweden)
Йоханна идет до Полюса самостоятельно, без поддержки. На Южном полюсе переобуется и сменит лыжи, чтобы вернуться на Геркулеса с использованием кайта.
Yeay!! I’m half way! I passed 85 degrees yesterday morning. And I am not only celebrating half way, I also took a celebration shot of whiskey as I did 37 kilometers in one day. Crazy.
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EMMA TAMSIN KELTY: TO THE POLE AND BACK
Route: Hercules Inlet – South Pole – Hercules Inlet
Skier: Emma ‘Tam’ Kelty (UK)
Эмма в прошлом году уже ходила на Полюс. Теперь собирается пойти и вернуться самостоятельно.
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RISTO HALLIKAINEN: THE TRUTH IS SOUTH THERE
Route: Hercules Inlet – South Pole – Hercules Inlet
Skier: Risto Hallikainen (Finland)
Risto is taking on a solo, unsupported, unassisted, return journey from Hercules Inlet to the South Pole and back. He set off with all of his supplies and will lay a number of depots on his way south which he will then pick up on his ski back north to Hercules Inlet.
Risto first learned to pull a sled in the Finnish Parachute Regiment and has since completed several ski trips in northern Finland, Sweden, and Norway.
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MALGORZATA WOJTACZKA: SOUTH POLE SOLO
Route: Hercules Inlet – South Pole
Skier: Malgorzata Wojtaczka (Poland)
Малгожата Войтачка может стать первой полячкой, которой удасться совершить автономный поход к Южному полюсу
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ALE SKI SOUTH POLE EXPEDITION
Route: Messner Start – South Pole
Skiers: Bob Maxwell (New Zealand), Carl Alvey (UK, Guide)
ALE’s Ski South Pole-Messner team is a small but sturdy crew this season with just one guest skiing alongside ALE Guide Carl Alvey. The two men will receive two resupplies along the route and anticipate reaching the South Pole before the New Year. Bob will stay on after the expedition and aims to climb Mount Vinson, Antarctica’s tallest peak.
Carl is returning to Antarctica for his eighth summer season and this will be his third Ski South Pole expedition. The team will travel 566 miles (911 km) from the Messner Start on the Ronne Ice Shelf to the South Pole.
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MOUNTAIN PROFESSIONALS SKI SOUTH POLE EXPEDITION
Route: Messner Start – South Pole
Skiers: Katrina Follows (UK), Scott Kress (Canada), Paul Adams (USA), Ryan Waters (USA, Guide)
Ryan Waters returns to Antarctica to guide an international team of skiers on the Messner route to the South Pole. The Mountain Professionals team is skiing unsupported and unassisted on their journey from the Ronne Ice Shelf to the Geographic South Pole.
Ryan led a successful Mount Vinson expedition with over 30 climbers from the True Patriot Love organization in January 2015. In 2009, he and Cecilie Skog completed an epic, 2-person, unsupported, unassisted, Antarctic traverse from Berkner Island to the Ross Ice Shelf via the South Pole. This was the first, and to date the only ski expedition to travel more than 1,000 miles across Antarctica without resupply or use of kites.
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POLE OF HOPE
Route: Leverett Glacier – South Pole
Skiers: Aron Anderson (Sweden), Doug Stoup (USA, Guide)
Aron Anderson is taking on a challenging sit ski expedition from the bottom of the Leverett Glacier on the Ross Ice Shelf to the Geographic South Pole. He is accompanied by Guide Doug Stoup of Ice Axe Expeditions for the more than 358 mile (576 km) journey.
Aron was diagnosed with cancer as a child and has been using a wheelchair since he was 9 years old. While confined to his bed, he read about Ola Skinnarmo’s 1998 expedition to Antarctica and was inspired to one day plan his own expedition and prove the wheelchair would not limit his dreams.
Aron’s Pole of Hope expedition is raising funds for Swedish Childhood Cancer Foundation.
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SEBASTIEN LAPIERRE: EXPEDITION POLE SUD 2016
Route: Hercules Inlet – South Pole
Skier: Sebastien Lapierre (Canada)
Sebastien is skiing solo, unsupported, and unassisted from Hercules Inlet to the South Pole. If successful, he will be the first Canadian to complete this journey solo and unassisted (without kites or sails).
Sebastien is no stranger to cold climates, having completed prior expeditions in Greenland and Iceland and having traversed the Northwest Passage by sea kayak and dog sled. When not on expedition, he is a firefighter and first responder.
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ICE TREK: SOUTH POLE VIA REEDY GLACIER
Route: Reedy Glacier – South Pole
Skiers: Keith Tuffley (Australia), Robert Smith (UK), Eric Philips (Australia, Guide)
Ice Trek has put together a 3 man team that will attempt a new route from the Ross Ice Shelf to the South Pole via the Reedy Glacier without resupplies.
Keith is an endurance cyclist and a sailor and Rob is former military. Earlier this year, they both completed a 93 mile (150 km) ski to the North Pole. They will be joined by Guide Eric Philips of Ice Trek.
Eric is an experienced polar expedition leader and guide, who has worked in the Arctic and Antarctic for more than 20 years. He has led expeditions on the Arctic Ocean, Antarctica, Greenland, Iceland, Svalbard, and the South Patagonia Icecap just to name a few.
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HANK’S ANTARCTIC ADVENTURE
Route: South Pole – Hercules Inlet
Cyclist: Hank Van Weelden (Canada)
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MICHELE PONTRANDOLFO
Route: Novolazarevskaya – Pole of Inaccessibility – South Pole – Hercules Inlet
Skier: Michele Pontrandolfo (Italy)
Michele Pontrandolfo is making a second attempt at a 2,485 mile (4,000 km) solo snow kiting and ski sailing Antarctic traverse from Novolazarevskaya in Dronning Maud Land; through the site of the former Soviet Pole of Inaccessibility Station Polyus Nedostupnosti; to the South Pole; and then on to Hercules Inlet on the Ronne Ice Shelf. Michele has many years of Arctic expedition experience and attempted this route last season, making it 250 nautical miles before requesting pick-up just before Christmas.
Only two parties have completed this extraordinarily long Transantarctic route. It was pioneered by Eric McNair-Landry and Sebastian Copeland in 2011 and soloed by Canadian Frédéric Dion in 2014.
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*ALE defines unsupported expeditions as those that start the expedition with all the equipment and supplies for the whole journey. They have no pre-placed depots, no resupplies, no support vehicles, and receive no outside help.
**ALE defines unassisted expeditions as those that are human powered and do not use external power aids for significant speed and load advantage. Assisted Antarctic expeditions typically use wind power (kites and ski-sails) or engine power (motorized vehicles).
