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Polar Expeditions 2006
Last updated: Nov 18, 2005
Note: List is preliminary and can be subject to change
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Antarctica crossings - kite-supported 2006 |
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Spanish Transantarctica expedition – circa 4500 km (no resupplies) |
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Ramón Larramendi is leading a three-man team in a 4500km traverse
across Eastern Antarctica, riding a kite-powered sled. Tested in
four Greenland traverses, the sled's - and Ramon's - ultimate goal
is to complete the longest Antarctic un-motorized traverse ever,
without resupplies.
The expedition aims beyond the usual true South Pole (of earth).
Their goal is to traverse the Eastern side of the frozen continent,
through two ‘lesser-known’ Poles: The South Pole of Inaccessibility,
and the Geomagnetic South Pole.
The team hopes to hit the ice from South Africa at Queen Maud Land’s
hills by November 3rd. The route is not yet fixed. The team will
decide once on the ice which scientific base to head for depending
on conditions and logistical issues.
Other team members are Juanma Viu and Ignacio Oficialdegui. The team
will be sending live dispatches over Contact 3.0.
www.tierraspolares.es/
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The Longest march - Rune Gjeldnes’ solo Antarctic crossing – 4600 km
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In the year 2000, Rune Gjeldnes and Torry Larsen set out to cross
the Arctic Ocean. Starting out in Russia, they stepped on the ice in
the pitch black Arctic winter. What followed was an epic journey. In
the end, the guys had lost just about everything including their
sleds and their gear. When they finally reached Canadian territory,
they were wearing only a backpack. The doctors of a small research
station that examined them on arrival said that Rune and Torry were
only 48 hours away from death. They had been out on the ice for 109
days.
During late October this year, Rune Gjeldnes set out on a new
expedition - and another world record attempt. His main goal is to
become the first person in the world to have crossed the Arctic
Ocean and Antarctica - without resupplies. The 4600 km journey will
be covered on skis without re-supplies in 110 days. If successful,
it will be a world distance record, approximately 800 km longer than
the previous skiing expedition record.
Rune will be sending live dispatches over Contact 3.0.
www.extreme-planet.com/exp/seal/
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Malaysia Explore Antarctica expedition - 3800 km (one resupply) |
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Twice postponed, the expedition was planned to start in November
2005. Dr. M. Kamaruddin and Isa and Encik Suhardi Alias will attempt
to cross Antarctica in 120 days, a 3,800km-long trip. The team will
set off from Station Blue One in Longitude 5E Latitude 70 and cross
the continent via the South Pole to Scott Base. They will use sails
and will have one resupply at the SP.
http://antarctica.mir.com.my/
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Icebird Expedition |
POSTPONED
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Twice postponed, the expedition was planned to start in November
2005. Dr. M. Kamaruddin and Isa and Encik Suhardi Alias will attempt
to cross Antarctica in 120 days, a 3,800km-long trip. The team will
set off from Station Blue One in Longitude 5E Latitude 70 and cross
the continent via the South Pole to Scott Base. They will use sails
and will have one resupply at the SP.
http://kitesled.com
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South Pole Unsupported 2005 |
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Proyecto Cumbre Venezuelan South Pole Expedition - 1100 km
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After skiing 3 degrees to the North Pole in 2004, Venezuelan
Proyecto Cumbre are ready to go south - and for a full trip this
time. The 1130 km from Hercules Inlet to the South Pole will be
covered without resupplies - if they succeeded, they will be the
first Venezuelans to ski to the South Pole.
The current team for the South Pole consists of founders Carlos and
Marcus, plus Carlos Castillo, Martín Echevarría, and Marco Cayuso.
The team will be sending live dispatches over Contact 3.0.
http://www.proyectocumbre.com.ve/
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Unsupported to the SP 2005 - Living the Dream - 1000 km
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Norwegian Hvitserks’s guiding outfitter is running two Antarctic
expeditions this season.
Both will be going for the South Pole unsupported and, according to
the expedition’s website, via a new route. “We will fly from Punta
Arenas in Chile to Patriot Hills,” the team reported. “From here we
will be flown further in a Twin Otter until we find a suitable
landing area on the Ronnie-Fleichner Ice Shelf near the Foundation
Ice Stream and on the 82nd degree of latitude. We are two groups who
will start at the same time but some distance apart from each other.
The plan is that each group will go on separate sides of the
Foundation Ice Stream and then to the South Pole. One group consists
of 5 people the other of 6 people.”
One of those teams includes seasoned explorer Rolf Bae, who in
2000-2001 skied 3800 km, crossing the Antarctic continent from the
Troll base in Queen Maud’s Land to the McMurdo base on the Ross Sea
and his girlfriend, Cecilia Skog. They both attempted K2 in summer
this year. K2 base camp manager Per Henry Knudsen is joining Cecilia
and Rolf in their current polar adventure.
http://www.southpole05.no/
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Matt McFadyen SP solo unsupported 2005 - 1100 km
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Mat, from Australia, plans to trek solo and without assistance from
Hercules Inlet 1100km's to the geographic South Pole.
http://www.sp1.net.au/
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Rob Porcaro’s 2005 Solo South Pole Expedition - 1300 km
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Australian Rob Porcaro will start the expedition at Berkner Island
(located on Ronne Ice Shelf on the coast of Antarctica) and trek to
the geographical South Pole covering a distance in excess of 1300
km's in approximately 55 days on foot and unsupported. The
expedition is due to start in November, 2005.
According to Rob, the trip would be an Australian’s first, since the
only other successful solo unsupported expedition from Berkner
Island to the South Pole was made in 1992 by Norwegian Erling Kagge.
http://www.lassothemoon.org/
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Wave Vidmar’s Solo to South Pole expedition |
POSTPONED
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The 41-year old American was to attempt the first American
unsupported solo expedition from the McMurdo side. Logistical
problems have forced Wave to postpone his trip.
http://www.southpolesolo.net/
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Pole to Pole 2005 |
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Pole to Pole Team 2005
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Starting in Antarctica, on December 2005 this journey will originate
at the South Pole and travel North 25,000 miles through the
continents of Antarctica, Africa, Europe, and the Arctic Ocean to
the North Pole. The journey will take over fifteen months.
Team members, led by Martyn Williams, will travel by ski and
wind-powered kite 450 miles from the South Pole to the coast.
The Pole to Pole Team 2005 consists of young adults from countries
across the globe: Canada, South Africa, England, Japan, France, the
United States, Germany and China.
http://www.pole2pole2000.com
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South Pole Partial Trips 2005 |
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Numis Polar Challenge South Pole expedition
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The five-man British team is repeating Captain Scott 's journey and
- they're doing it Scott's way!
Everything from the animal-fur mittens to gabardine coats, the
sledge, most of the food, and even the navigation tools will be
exactly as those used on the expedition in 1911-1912. In this case
though, the trip luckily ends at the Pole - whilst Scott's
expedition faced its terrible fate on the way back.
The team is made up of four friends: Simon Daglish, James Daly,
Roger Weatherby, and Ed Farquhar - all retired old-chaps from the
British army. For the current challenge, they are counting on a
polar star as a guide as well as team leader, Geoff Somers. Somers
is an expert polar explorer, with some remarkable achievements on
his résumé.
The team will depart London on December 16th, and will land on
Antarctica at Patriot Hills base. As soon as the weather permits,
the expedition will be airlifted to the starting point. The trip is
expected to last four weeks and it will end at the South Pole, from
where the team will be airlifted back to Patriot Hills.
The team will be sending live dispatches over Contact 3.0.
http://www.southpole2005.com
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Antarctica Climbing Expeditions 2005 |
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Omega Foundation for new routes on Sentinel Range peaks
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After monopolizing a large number of unclimbed summits at Vinson
Massif last year, Damien Gildea’s Omega Fundation team is back. This
time, the team has set its sights on Sentinel Range, where they will
spend two entire months climbing and measuring four of Antarctica’s
highest peaks: Tyree, Craddock, Gardner, and Epperly – all well over
4000m. Since the peaks have been summited before – the guys plan to
set new routes on all of them.
The team, consisting of Australian Damien Gildea (36), Chilean
Camilo Rada (25), Briton Steve Chaplin (35), and Chilean Manuel
Bugueno (27) will fly to Antarctica from Punta Arenas by mid-
November. Once there, they will move from Patriot Hills base to a
selected spot in the southern Sentinel Range where they will set BC.
http://www.theomegafoundation.org/
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National team of Kazakhstan Antarctica Expedition
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The Kazakhs are back. This time they are taking a change in scenery
though, from Himalayan 8000ers and Central Asian mountains, to the
virgin peaks of Antarctica.
The current expedition includes Everest summiteer Ervand Iljinsky,
who has done notable climbs in Central Asia including the Khan
Tengri-Pobeda traverse, and coaches the National Climbing Team of
Kazakhstan in their quest to summit all 14 8000ers.
The climbers are heading out in November, to make a number of first
climbs on several peaks at Queen Maud Land, near the Russian
Lazarevskaja base. They will attempt unclimbed points in Mulig-Hoffman
and Orvin mountain ranges (originally named Dregalsky mountains).
The expedition is a joint-venture between the Kazakhstan
Mountaineering Federation and the Patronage of Russian Arctic and
Antarctic Institute.
http://www.russianclimb.com
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Antarctica Other Ventures 2005 |
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Ice Marathon
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Organized by Adventure Network International (ANI), the Ice Marathon
will be held on January, 2006. Participants will fly by private
charter jet from Punta Arenas Chile to 80˚ South, just a few hundred
miles from the South Pole at the foot of the Ellsworth Mountains in
the interior of Antarctica. The Antarctic Ice Marathon will be the
southern most marathon on earth. Runners can choose between three
categories: The 80 South Half Marathon of 13.1 miles, the average
42,195 km (26.2-mile) marathon distance, and the Antarctic 100km
Ultra Race.
http://www.adventure-network.com/display.asp?navid=1&id=59
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Gus McLeod Pole to Pole expedition
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POSTPONED
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Mechanical problems have forced Gus to postpone his attempt to fly
from Pole to Pole solo, in a single-engine Firefly aircraft.
http://www.gusmcleod.com/
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Ice Challenger
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A six-member team will attempt to drive a modified Ford E-series van
from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole. They plan to
complete the 1,200 km route in a record breaking time of 60 hours,
in December 2005.
http://www.voyageconcepts.co.uk/travel/icetruck.htm
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