After nearly two months of crippling cold, unforgiving winds and high altitudes, five explorers have completed a 1000-mile journey to the South Pole. Kiwis Laura Andrews and Mike Dawson, and Norwegian Marthe Brendefur, spent 50 days pulling sledges laden with equipment across the frozen ground, often having to negotiate waves of sastrugi (wind-blown ice) as […]
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