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Antarctica Expeditions 2003/2004
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Unsupported South Pole expeditions - Starting from
Hercules Inlet |
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Rosie Stancer |
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Rosie Stancer leaves in November 2003 on an attempt to become the
first British woman to walk solo and unsupported from the coast of
Antarctica to the South Pole. In 1999, Rosie was member of the first
British all-woman team to reach the South Pole with air support.
www.snickerssouthpole.com
Rosie Stancer reached the Pole on
January 13th, 2004. She skied solo and unsupported and
completed her expedition in 44 days. |
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Fiona Thornewill |
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Fiona Thornewill too is going solo and unsupported from the coast to
the pole. Departure is set for November 2003.
Along with Catherine Hartley, Fiona was one of the two first British
women to ski to both poles and, with husband Mike, also the first
married couple to reach both poles (all expeditions with air
support).
www.polarchallenge.org
January 10th, 2004 Fiona broke the
record and reached the Pole in 42 days. She skied solo and
unsupported the whole way. |
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| Park
Young-seok |
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Park
Young-seok and a team of four other Koreans are skiing unsupported
from Hercules Inlet to the South Pole. Mr. Park has summited
all the world's 14, 8000m peaks and is now working on the
Poles. So far he has attempted both the North and South
Poles, but aborted both times.
Mr. Park and four other Koreans
reached the Pole on January 13th, 2004, in 44 days. They
claim to have broken the record and refuted Fiona Thornewill's
time, saying that she had an airlift early on. ExplorersWeb
investigated the situation, looked at her ARGOS information and
found that Fiona started below the 80th degree, the traditional
starting point for Hercules Inlet South Pole expeditions.
Mr. Park has yet to respond to this information - ExplorersWeb and
AdventureStats currently recognize Fiona Thornewill has holding
the current record to the Pole on an unsupported expedition - 42
days |
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South Pole Mission |
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In December Pen Hadow and Simon Murray will make an attempt to reach
the South Pole from Hercules Inlet unsupported. The South Pole
Mission will help raise awareness for the Royal Geographical
Society’s polar archives. Simon Murray will, if successful, become
the oldest person to make this journey unsupported. Earlier this
year, Pen Hadow was the first man to reach the Geographic North Pole
solo and unsupported from Canada.
www.polartravel.co.uk
www.TetleySouthPoleMission.com
Pen and Simon arrived at the Pole on
January 28th, 58 days after starting from Hercules Inlet on their
unsupported ski. At 63 years old Simon became the oldest to
make the trek to the South Pole, and Pen is now the only Brit who
has skied to the North and South Poles unsupported. |
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Supported South Pole expedition - Starting from
Hercules Inlet |
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| NorthWinds |
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NorthWind's guide and only woman on the team, Matty McNair is
leading a crew of 4 clients to the South Pole. They have a
resupply setup at the Theil Mountains. This is Matty’s third polar expedition -
previously she skied to the North Pole in 1997 and to the South Pole in 2002.
Matty is the most experienced female Polar guide in the world.
Two of Matty's crew, Alexander Blyth and Ray Middleton are also
doing dispatches.
www.NorthWinds-Arctic.com
www.HaloGoestothePole.com
The whole team reached the south Pole on January 20th |
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Unsupported
South Pole Expeditions - Starting from
Berkner Island |
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Rob Porcaro |
Expedition postponed |
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Starting out November, Rob Porcaro 43, will attempt to become the first
Australian to trek 1300km unassisted from Berkner Island to the
South Pole. Rob is undertaking this expedition in order to raise
awareness of depression, a debilitating illness which currently
affects 1:5 Australians and is predicted to become the second
greatest cause of premature death and disability worldwide by 2020.
www.lassothemoon.org |
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Polar Flyers |
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Gus McLeod South Pole flight
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In April of 2000 Gus McLeod has flew solo to the North Pole in an
open cockpit bi-plane. Now he planes to fly to the South Pole Solo,
completing an interrupted Pole-to-Pole solo flight around the world.
He is doing this in honor of the 100th Anniversary of the Wright
Brothers' first powered flight.
www.gusmcleod.com |
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First |
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the fall of 2003 Jennifer Murray and Colin Bodill set off for an
around the world helicopter flight, via the North and South
Poles. The route would take them down the eastern coast of
the Americas to the South Pole and then up the western coast of
the Americas to the North Pole.
www.PolarFirst.com
The duo crashed in Antarctica at
0100 GMT on Saturday 20th, December 2003 one third of the way through their attempt.
They did manage to successfully reach the South Pole. They
were evacuated and received treatment in Punta Arenas.
Jennifer had an elbow injury and Colin suffered a more serious
back injury. After surgery he is walking again and expected
to make a full recovery. |
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Wings |
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British
woman Polly Vacher is attempting to fly around the world on a solo
flight via both the North and South Poles.
www.WolrdWings.org
Logistical issues kept Polly from
flying to the South Pole, so she's had to reroute her flight.
The new plan is to fly back up the Americans and cross the Pacific
from California to rejoin her original route in New Zealand. |
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Antarctica Crossing Expeditions |
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Malaysia Antarctica Crossing |
Expedition postponed |
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Malaysia is off for a crossing at Antarctica, and one of the skiers
will wear a veil! She is Sharifah Mazlina Bt. Syed Abdul Kadir, 38,
and her team mates are Suhardi Bin Alias 36, and M. Kamaruddin Bin
M. Isa, 43. The expedition start from Blue one and are
planning to sail and ski to Scott Base, a distance of 3800 km. The
expedition will have a resupply at the South Pole.
http://antarctica.mir.com.my
The expedition has been postponed until August 2004
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Tierras Polares Antarcica Crossing |
Expedition postponed |
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The aim of this expedition is to carry out a crossing of the Eastern
Antarctic, through an area known as "The zone of inaccessibility" -
a journey of 5000 km.
The expedition will "sail" on a "houseboat" using a
sled type catamaran, pulled by an enormous kite.
www.tierraspolares.es/catamaran/2003_4_i.htm
The expedition has been postponed until
2004
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Unsupported
South Pole Expeditions - Starting from Patriot Hills |
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Cold Feat |
Starting in November Judy Kelly will attempt to reach the South Pole
from the camp at Patriot Hills (a bit shorter route than from the
coast), together with
three team mates; Manse Ahmad, Josh Mainka and Thor Windham-Wright.
This expedition too plan to try the trip without air support of
supplies.
The Cold Feat expedition never happened. No word yet on future
plans.
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Supported South Pole Expeditions - Starting from McMurdo |
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Scott's Challenge |
Expedition postponed |
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Pete Goss and Alan Chambers want to close the chapter on Captain
Scott's famous attempt to reach the South Pole on foot in 1911. The two will follow in his footsteps and walk to
the South Pole and back using the same route as Scott did.
Expedition starts in November.
www.scottschallenge.com |
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Antarctica Other expeditions 2003 |
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Breaking the Ice |
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This team is trying to make a statement for peace; the Israelis and
Palestinians are joining forces on a climbing expedition to the
Antarctic Peninsula. In December 2003 a team of four Israelis and
four Palestinians will sail across the "Drake Passage" to Antarctica.
They will then trek to a previously un-climbed mountain on the
Antarctic Peninsula and name it together.
www.breaking-the-ice.de |
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Last Degree skiing expedition |
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Mike Thornewill, Steve Bull, and four other skiers will ski from
Lewis Nunatack to the North Pole. Mike hope to meet his wife Fiona
at the pole. One member of the team, Mark Turner, has the
Contact 2.0 dispatching system with him and is updating his site
daily with pictures and the occasional video.
www.PolarChallenge.org
Mark
Turner's site
Team Rendezvous arrived at the Pole
on January 27th. Expedition member Steve Bull was evacuated
earlier on in the expedition due to altitude related illness and a
nasty virus. |
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IceAxe |
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Mike Libecki and Josh Helling will head down to Antarctica this
fall/winter. They will first retrofit a weather station and
then travel by kites and skis over to the Wohlthat Mountains,
a landscape that can best be described as "other worldly."
www.IceAxe.tv |
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Patagonia expeditions |
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Transpatagonia Ice Cap Expedition |
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Norweigian polar explorer Borge Ousland and German photographer
Thomas Ulrich is attempting to cross the Patagonian Ice cap. They departed on August 21 and
expect the expedition to last for two months.
The Patagonia ice cap, or Hielo Patagonio Sur, is 400 km by 80 km
and has only been crossed in its full length once before.
www.ousland.com
After only 39 days Borge and Thomas stepped off the ice having
partially completed the crossing. |
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Stefan Glowacz and Robert Jasper |
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On November 2 Stefan Glowacz and Robert Jasper will set off for
Argentina and a spectacular climb in Patagonia. Murallon is a big
peak out in the south Patagonia ice cap, Glowacz and Jasper will
attempt the yet unclimbed north-eastern side made of 1300 meters of
steep ice and perpendicular rock. They will transport all their
expedition and climbing gear over very difficult terrain to the foot
of the mountain side and hope to return successfully on Christmas
Eve.
www.robert-jasper.de
www.glowacz.de
In early December Stefan and Robert successfully
climbed a new route no the Murallon. They named it, "The
Lost World." |
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Patagonian dreaming |
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Peter Nodari, Ivan Scandella, and Mattia Tanza are on a Patagonian
traverse. They are covering a distance of about 120 km on the Hielo
Sur, a massive Patagonian icecap. The journey started at El Chalten,
a small village at the foot of Fitz Roy. They plan on finishing at
East Cristina, along the Upsala Glacier.
www.freeridespirit.com
The group of three completed their
traverse and returned to Italy around the 7th of January. |
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