Antarctica was always drawn by voyagers and explorers throughout the years. The South Pole was probably first reached by the Māori, the indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand. At the beginning of 20th century, the Antarctica's inland was one of a few undiscovered places on Earth. In 1911, Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen became the first person to reach the Pole. One month after, another expedition tried to reach the same destination but all died tragically. Adrex.com found another brave explorers with the same aim as their predecessors, exploring the beauties of Antarctica's unspoiled nature.
Antarctica is the fourth biggest continent on Earth. Landscape and weather conditions are so harsh no civilization exist here. The only human beings living here are scientists working on their science projects. Antarctica is 14-million km2 land covered in ice and shelf icebergs. Antarctica is also the coldest place of all continents, with the lowest temperature ever recorder in 1983 by Russian science base Vostok, reaching –89,2 °C. Climate is extremely cold, in the central region dry with only a few mm of perceptional amount a year. Even though the sky is incessantly cloudless, it does not produce any rain (or snow in this case) due to its anticyclone and the snow is mostly wafted by the wind here.
Vinson Massif
The highest mountain of the area is Vinson Massif, 4,892 meters (16,050 ft) high, lying in the Elssworth Mountains. The massif is located about 1,200 kilometers (750 mi) from the South Pole. Adrex.com found out about an international team of two adventurers who want to walk from the Antarctic coast to climb the top of the massif, a journey internationally known as a “Sea to Summit” .The Vinson Massif is a big mountain of snow and ice. Higher than the highest mountain in Western Europe, the famous Mont Blanc. With the constant harsh polar wind, that is a huge climb. The mountain was first climbed in 1966. Since 2001, numerous climbers have attempted to reach the top via different routes but it was never travelled before by only two men alone.
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Arnaud de Wilde, an adventurer and mountain climber from Netherlands and Wim De Backer, a Belgian explorer and expedition climber set their minds to challenge Mother Nature at its worse… they will walk, ski and climb more than 300 kilometers in freezing cold environment.
"Because we want to complete the whole Sea to Summit route “unsupported” we will first ski and walk to Hercules Inlet instead of flying over there. This way our guide has a few days to give us some extra training while we can start from Hercules Inlet as an unsupported team of two. So once we leave Hercules Inlet, we’re on our own", says the team.
The journey is scheduled from November 2014 to January 2015.If you want to find out about Arnaud's and Wim's polar adventure more, check their webpage.
Source: www.proarctica.eu, thanks to Arnaud and Wim. All images are property of proARCTICA.
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