My Wife Made Me Walk to the South Pole! Simon Murray, ex-Legionnaire and businessman extraordinaire, also happened to become the oldest man (63) to walk 1200 km to the South Pole in 2004.
Cycling to the South Pole Kate Leeming has a dream to bicycle across Antartica.To help make it a reality, she has gone on training expeditions on multiple continents, and collaborated on new technologies. Four years after she started preparing, it’s go time. Sometime in the next two years, Australian endurance athlete Kate Leeming
Five (of the many) Icy Adventures to be Had in Antarctica If you happen to find yourself on the harshest, most inhospitable, driest, coldest, and windiest continent on Earth, here are a few things that you must do on the last and final frontier. Antarctica is such a hopeful, alluring, and mysterious place. Protected by the Antarctic treaty, it has no
Why this former diplomat aims to be the first woman from Singapore to walk to the South Pole Eirliani Abdul Rahman quit the Singapore Foreign Service after ten years of service, set up her non-profit on child rights and child protection, and decided to gain media attention on the subject by attempting to be the first woman from her country to walk to the South Pole. Here, she
Training for the South Pole: Interview with Trainer Diwaker Sharma Diwaker Sharma, a physical fitness enthusiast, trainer and yogi has been training the Indian Army Special Forces units since 2010. He is currently training Ruta Sidlauskaite and Eirliani Abdul Rahman for their expedition to the South Pole next year. Diwaker Sharma is training Ruta Sidlauskaite, the 26-year-old from Lithuania and
An adventurer who aims to be the first Lithuanian woman to trek to the South Pole Read all about Ruta Sidlauskaite's training plan, an adventurer from Lithuania who plans to trek to the South Pole next year in January. She will pull a 60kg sled over 1100kms for 60 days. Ruta Sidlauskaite who is based in Delhi will be setting off for the South
Exclusive: Meet the world's first female Master Polar Guide Sarah McNair-Landry is the first woman to be recognised by the International Polar Guides Association as a Master Polar Guide. She is also the youngest person to have traveled to both the North and South Poles. Eirliani Abdul Rahman, together with her climbing partner, Ruta Sidlauskaite who hails from Lithuania,