Live Day 4310
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Journey
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Altitude:
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Altitude
Starting at the coast Ben and Tarka will climb almost 8000ft up one of the world's largest glaciers, the Beardmore Glacier on to the Antarctica plateau. Once on the plateau they'll have a straight line to the South Pole before turning around and walking back the way they came to the coast again.
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Distance to go:
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Distance
Ben and Tarka will cover 1800 miles starting from Scott's Terra Nova Hut at the edge of Antarctica to the South Pole and back to the coast again. That's equivalent to 69 back-to-back marathons hauling up to 200kg each (the weight of roughly two adult men) of kit and supplies necessary to survive.
Distances here are shown in statute miles.
Expedition Update: Scott 2012 – 2nd Phonecast
Al reflects on food, depot laying and solar charging from the Greenland icecap in this audio update. Listen to the update here.
Comments
# Anne, February 7th 2013
The enjoyment of the common human acts… drinking warm tea …that makes the extraordinary ordinary and tangible. what is in your exploratory quest… That is in all of us…you are awakening the human soul…explorations of past and present and future are traced in this…action…walking a heavy load you carry against hail wind snow you deliver a letter, a postcard …keep us posted as we await…