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The Mission
On February 2, 2002 Tom and Tina reached the South Pole after 63 days of skiing.
It was a great victory. The expedition was unsupported, the temperatures were of record lows in the end and the technology innovative.
Yet the team arrived without injuries, and there were live dispatches and pictures made throughout the entire expedition - with not even
one day of disruption.
It was the first time in history that it was made possible to follow in
the steps of Schackleton, Scott and Amundsen in live stories and pictures. Just
like the explorers before them, the couple battled storms,
sastrugi, bitter cold and fear, daily sharing their doubts and -
in the end - success in open hearted entries and pictures
from each day.
On Christmas day, out in a heavy
Antarctic storm, T&T also made a
blue tooth transmission between the wearable computers as a Christmas gift to Ericsson. They thus made a
wireless network between wearable computers, in some of the harshest conditions found on earth.
Last but not least, Tom and Tina became the first couple to accomplish two of the worlds three poles (Everest/South Pole/North Pole) together, Tina also being the only lady in the world to have done so.
The expedition however hasn’t stopped there.
Instead, Tom and Tina now head for the North Pole. The quest is to journey to the earth’s three
poles (Everest/NP/SP), with the SP and NP "back-to-back", allowing only 35 days
for recovery and preparation before the North Pole.
"Everest, South Pole and the North Pole are the worlds greatest adventures. We are fortunate to follow in the steps of fabled adventurers such as Hillary, Mallory,
Shackleton, Amundsen, Scott, Cook and Peary. When we crossed the Atlantic Ocean we followed the log of
Columbus. Although hundreds of years had passed between our journeys, many of our thoughts and observations were
identical. We live in a precious age where the entire world is available and all of the great adventures can be relived by one individual person.
As we are the pioneers of our time however, we add modern quests to push
today's frontiers. For us, they are the technology trials and
sometimes human strength trials; such as to try to do the Poles back-to-back or help a sherpa sleep on the summit of Everest.
On our journeys, we make the whole world ours, we touch the minds of great explorers and we learn about ourselves and the world we live in. We go differently than the old guys did, but probably much for the same reasons."
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