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In January 2016, aged 30, he became the youngest Brit, the first Scot - and the first person in history with an artificial pacemaker - to ski solo, unsupported and unassisted to the South Pole in Antarctica. [2] The trip began at Hercules Inlet [3] (78.5°S) on the Ronne Ice Shelf and ended at the Geographic South Pole (90°S). The trip covered ...
The Geographic South Pole is marked by the stake on the right NASA image showing Antarctica and the South Pole in 2005. The South Pole, also known as the Geographic South Pole or Terrestrial South Pole, is the point in the Southern Hemisphere where the Earth's axis of rotation meets its surface.
On Thin Ice is a documentary following a team of three consisting of Ben Fogle, James Cracknell, and Ed Coats in their race across Antarctica to the South Pole.The series covers the whole experience, beginning with training efforts in Switzerland and vigorous exercises elsewhere.
The President of Chile visits the south pole in January 2025. In 1991, Michael Palin visited the base on the eighth and final episode of his BBC Television documentary, Pole to Pole. [37] [38] On January 10, 1995, NASA, PBS, and NSF collaborated for the first live television broadcast from the South Pole, titled Spaceship South Pole. [39]
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2016–2017 – On 7 February Mike Horn completes first ever solo, unsupported north-to-south traverse of Antarctica from the Princess Astrid Coast (lat −70.1015 lon 9.8249) to the Dumont D'urville Station (lat −66.6833 lon 139.9167) via the South Pole. He arrived at the pole on 7 February 2017.
Scott's Vacation House Rules is back! Well, sort of. Well, sort of. For viewers on HGTV Canada, the renovation series starring Scott McGillivray has returned for its fifth season, but U.S. fans ...
As of 2020 she holds the record for the most winters spent by a woman at the South Pole. She spent five winters total: 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008. 2004. Fiona Thornewill became first British woman to ski solo and unsupported to the South Pole in a record breaking 41 days. [9] Linda Beilharz is the first Australian woman to ski to the ...