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Videos

Year 2009

 

Rate Video: Explorers make South Pole trekVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Dailymotion external link    Wed, Jan 14

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Adventurer Ray Zahab tells CNN how he and two others survived a record-breaking hike from Antarctica to the South Pole. www.dailymotion.com

Stories

Year 2009

 

Rate Brunei's Polar Girl Phones Home: Aidil Adha On Ice

Original at Bru Direct external link    Thu, Nov 26

Era and the team were preparing to set off on the fifth day of their expedition. aiming to cover 54km of the 910km trek to the geographic South Pole. ...

Rate Physics teacher to spend month in Antarctica

Original at San Mateo Daily Journal external link    Sun, Nov 15

Today, O'Hara begins nearly a week-long trek ending at the South Pole where he'll spend one month at the IceCube, the world's largest neutrino telescope and ... and more »

Rate The road less travelled for McGrath

Original at SLAM! Sports external link    Sun, May 10

 Canada McGrath, who has already climbed both versions of the Seven Summits (the first and only Canadian woman to do so), plans to trek the 1130 km from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole next November. If successful, she'll become the only Canadian ...

Rate Fogle completes South Pole trekVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at fr.truveo.com external link    Sun, Apr 26    3 related articles

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TV presenter Ben Fogle speaks about his Antarctic adventure fr.truveo.com

Rate Young Hagley scientists host celebrity celebration

Original at Stourbridge external link    Thu, Apr 23

  UK Ben, James and Ed recently took part in a Race to The South Pole event, recreating Captain Scott's epic trek across the Antarctic nearly 100 years ago. The team paid a visit to the school on Wednesday April 22 to call on students Victoria Price, ...

Rate Hagley school pupils' jacket design puts them in Pole position

Original at BirminghamMail.net external link    Sun, Apr 5

 UK Hagley Catholic High School in Hagley, near Stourbridge, is due to host a visit by the polar explorers on April 22. Together with third Team QinetiQ member Ed Coats, they completed a 500-mile trek to the South Pole over the Christmas and New Year ...

Rate Ulster Backs Top Jockey On 1000 Mile Challenge

Original at University of Ulster external link    Mon, Mar 30

 UK In January last year, he completed a 48-day trek in the Antarctic which saw him reach the South Pole on his 44th birthday. He says: "My South Pole expedition last year was tough but this might take it to a completely different level. ...

Rate On top of the world

Original at Kanata Kourier Standard external link    Thu, Mar 26

 Canada First, she’ll train at the North Pole before attempting a solo, 60-day trek across Antarctica to the South Pole. That expedition, as well as running a marathon race across the Sahara Desert in 2006, will be her only breaks from mountain climbing. ...

Rate Wandsworth man returns from dream trip to South Pole

Original at Wandsworth Borough Guardian external link    Tue, Jan 27

 UK - Jan 27, 2009 Daragh Horgan has just returned from a gruelling two-month trek to Antarctica where him and a team of five braved temperatures of -50C to drag their sleds ...

Rate Canadian trio claim South Pole record for trans-Antarctic trip

Original at Wikinews external link    Sat, Jan 10

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Antarctica. An orthographic projection of NASA's Blue Marble data set. Ray Zahab is a Canadian ultramarathon runner, personal trainer, and motivational ... Canadians set new record for South Pole trek ABC Online Explorers say they set record in South Pole trek The Associated Press

Rate Canadians set world record trek to South Pole

Original at google.com external link    Thu, Jan 8

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OTTAWA (AFP) — Three Canadian adventurers have set a world record for the fastest crossing of Antarctica to the South Pole, traveling 1130 kilometers (700 ... Canadian trio claim South Pole record for trans-Antarctic trip Wikinews Canadians claim South Pole record BBC News

Rate Trek to South Pole concluded; fundraising continues

Original at Burlington Post external link    Thu, Dec 18

 Canada - Dec 18, 2008 Earlier this month, the explorers set out for the Antarctic to reach the South Pole. It was expected to be a gruelling 200-kilometre journey on ...

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