Live Day 4212
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Journey
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Altitude:
26 Ft
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.
How long is your toothbrush?
As the flight to Antarctica draws closer, Ben and Tarka are finishing off the last of their expedition prep including packing food, customising their skis and shaving unnecessary weight off kit wherever possible.
Comments
# Graham, November 10th 2013
Amazing seeing the food packing. It strikes me however that the quantity and weight of packaging is huge and could have been saved by just packing decent big containers with multiple items - like a week at a time or by type.
I.e. package in bulk and release by pack into buckets etc each week, it would save time and energy unwrapping too…