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Alex Abramov from the South Pole
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Hello! Now 9 p.m. by Chile time. Our team is, without loss, came to the South Pole. So, we are five. We are at the South Pole. Congratulations to all with Ortodox Christmas. Today we also will celebrate it. Hooray! Tomorrow we plan to fly ...
Hello! Now 9 p.m. by Chile time. Our team is, without loss, came to the South Pole. So, we are five. We are at the South Pole. Congratulations to all with Ortodox Christmas. Today we also will celebrate it. Hooray! Tomorrow we plan to fly to the Union Glacier. It is likely the 10th of January we'll be in Chile. Today the weather was really bad. We even got lost a bit in the blizzard. But we managed to find the pole. All is well. Goodbye!
At last we started for South Pole
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Hello! This is Alex Abramov from Antarctica. Today we managed to get out from the Union Glacier base and to start our route. So, we are now on the way to the South Pole! We feel great, everything is OK, excellent, we all are alive and ...
Hello! This is Alex Abramov from Antarctica. Today we managed to get out from the Union Glacier base and to start our route. So, we are now on the way to the South Pole! We feel great, everything is OK, excellent, we all are alive and well. Today, we made 8 kilometers. It was just the first day, we had to use our work. So, tomorrow we have to go for 12 kilometers. Goodbye!
Alexander Abramov reports from Antarctica
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Hello! Alexander Abramov reports from Antarctica. Our team of five people going on the route Last Degree. Today is December 30, and tomorrow, December 31, in the morning, we want to fly out the route to ...
Hello! Alexander Abramov reports from Antarctica. Our team of five people going on the route Last Degree. Today is December 30, and tomorrow, December 31, in the morning, we want to fly out the route to celebrate the New Year on the way to the Pole. All is good. Food, tents ... Today we practiced how to put up tents, assorted products, poured gasoline in cans, all equipment prepared. We will try tomorrow morning to fly the route.
If not, we'll have to meet the New Year inAntarcticawith the team of ALE. It is also good, here there are a lot of young, beautiful girls. Good bye! Next time we will contact you from to route. Bye!
Alexander Abramov with a group of the South Pole in Punta Arenas
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Alexander Abramov met in Punta Arenasa a new group. They went through all the procedures and are ready to take off at Union Glacier. Their program is Last Degree on ski. Edward, Alex, Sergei, Roman in a briefing before leaving for ...
Alexander Abramov met in Punta Arenasa a new group. They went through all the procedures and are ready to take off at Union Glacier. Their program is Last Degree on ski.
Edward, Alex, Sergei, Roman in a briefing before leaving for Antarctica.
Another member, Vitaly, is waiting for the group at Union Glacier.
New group at Vinson: briefing and start of flight waiting
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Alex Abramov met a new group of the 7 Summits Club inPunta Arenas. They came for the program Climbing Mt. Vinson. The team consists of: Anatoly Stegney, Vitaly Simonovic, Dmitry Sokov and Alexander Lozhkin. Our Guide Olya Rumyantseva awaits ...
Alex Abramov met a new group of the 7 Summits Club inPunta Arenas. They came for the program Climbing Mt. Vinson. The team consists of: Anatoly Stegney, Vitaly Simonovic, Dmitry Sokov and Alexander Lozhkin. Our Guide Olya Rumyantseva awaits them in theAntarctica, at the Union Glacier base..
Today, the company ALE organized a briefing and our team listened all in pure American English. This was the first hard test.
Alex had a friendly conversation with Mike Sharp, co-owner of ALE.
Sir Ranulph Fiennes' 'coldest journey' begins
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By Matthew Priceþ BBC News. The team face a 2,000-mile journey acrossAntarctica, which they hope to start in March next year. Sir Ranulph Fiennes is leading a team of five other explorers in a quest to achieve a feat no other human ...
By Matthew Priceþ BBC News. The team face a 2,000-mile journey acrossAntarctica, which they hope to start in March next year.
Sir Ranulph Fiennes is leading a team of five other explorers in a quest to achieve a feat no other human has managed - to walk across Antarctica in the near permanent darkness and super low temperatures of winter.
Phase one of The Coldest Journey expedition - which aims to raise millions of pounds in donations for the Seeing is Believing charity to tackle avoidable blindness - begins later when the icebreaker SA Agulhas sets off from the River Thames.
The journey from a wintry Thames to the ice shelf ofAntarcticawill take just over a month.
During their sea voyage, team members will obtain data on marine life, oceanography and meteorology.
On Thursday afternoon, after a suitable send off, the SA Agulhas will weigh anchor and slip beneathTowerBridgeon its way to the world's coldest continent.
The expedition force is led by the man known as the world's greatest living explorer - 68-year-old Sir Ranulph Fiennes.
It's an expedition that's been in the planning stages for years, Sir Ranulph says on the bridge of the ship, while looking at a map of his route.
"The idea came up about four-and-a-half years ago. We started approaching the Foreign Office for permission to go and we finally got it 10 days ago."
Aboard the SA Agulhas is a giant crane. It will be used to lift some 200 tonnes of equipment onto the ice ofAntarctica.
The BBC's Matthew Price has been aboard the SA Agulhas to see how preparations have been going
It consists of three huge industrial sledges - each with a modified shipping container placed on top.
Inside two of them are living quarters, and supplies. In the third, a science lab.
Behind these there'll be another 14 smaller sledges, each transporting fuel.
That will power the two bulldozers that have been specially re-equipped for this expedition, in the hope they can drag the entire team across 2,000 miles of some of the world's most inhospitable terrain.
In front of this whole procession, two skiers will lead the way, pulling a small ground-penetrating radar system that will help them locate crevices. That will be crucial if they are to make it across.
The expedition proper - from the Russian base of Novolazareskaya to theRossSea- is due to begin on 21 March and is expected to take six months.
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Supplies
165 rolls of toilet paper (12 sheets per man per day)
20kg of dried egg
7,300 tea bags
4,400 packets of soup
30 toothbrushes
230kg of chocolate
600 metres of rope
15 pairs of boxer shorts per man
Boots with electrically-heated insoles
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"The vehicles are a bigger potential problem than the people," believes Sir Ranulph. "Minus 80 could be damaging to lung tissue when you're breathing while skiing."
But he says that, "in the vehicles you have steel and rubber which don't like minus 70 - never mind when they're towing everything - so there is an unpredictable element there".
To get Foreign Office permission to go toAntarcticathey had to prove they could be self-sufficient. That's why the vehicles must be used to tow everything they might possibly need. In the Antarctic winter there's no way of being rescued.
Sir Ranulph wants to beat Norwegians to new Antarctic record
"That means everything from vehicle spares down to a toothbrush," says Brian Newham, who'll be on the team crossing the continent, and who's also been organising the gear for the expedition.
He's even been counting the number of sheets on a toilet roll.
"We're taking 165 rolls. That's one for all of us for every 2.25 days," he says.
Is that enough?
"I'd better have it right," he smiles.
Everything they take with them will be removed from the ice at the end of the expedition. Including the human waste.
There's enough food for each of the six-person team to last 365 days if it's necessary. They hope it won't be.
The food consists of specialist dried fruits, sports nutrition products, and normal dried foods like lasagne. They can't take tins with them as they'd freeze and burst.
"I can't say I think we can make it," admits Sir Ranulph.
"I don't know it's possible - it's rather like the Americans when they went to the moon. Was it possible? They didn't know."
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20619050
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ITAR-TASS to declare about the seven volcanoes program
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December 11 (Tuesday) at 14:00 in the ITAR-TASS /Tverskoy Boulevard, 2, 2nd Floor / will be a press conference on the topic "The Russians on the highest peaks of the continents." Recently, the popularity of the "7 Volcanoes" is growing. We ...
December 11 (Tuesday) at 14:00 in the ITAR-TASS /Tverskoy Boulevard, 2, 2nd Floor / will be a press conference on the topic "The Russians on the highest peaks of the continents." Recently, the popularity of the "7 Volcanoes" is growing. We are talking about the conquest of the highest volcanoes all continents over the world. InRussiathere are two people who are close to this performance - Alexander Abramov and Vyacheslav Adrov. In addition, Vyacheslav Adrov holds 2 records ofRussia/ Russian Book of Records / associated with the activities at altitude.
In a press conference we will meet: Honorary Polar Russia, vice-president of the Russian Geographical Society, Director of the Arctic and Antarctic Museum Victor Boyarsky, master of sport mountaineering, multiple conqueror of Everest, the head of "7 Summits Club" Alexander Abramov, recordsman of the "Book of Records of Russia" Vyacheslav Adrov.
Vyacheslav Adrov
An article about this (in Russian)
http://www.abajour.ru/files/92-99_198.pdf
The team “Alpari on top of the world” came in Antarctica
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"Yes, we are now already in Antarctica. In the morning the phone woke us up at 6 am. We leave. At 9 am we took off from Punta Arenasand arrived at Union Glacier. Now it's warm here, we can say even hot. This is summer. In general, we are ...
"Yes, we are now already in Antarctica. In the morning the phone woke us up at 6 am. We leave. At 9 am we took off from Punta Arenasand arrived at Union Glacier. Now it's warm here, we can say even hot. This is summer. In general, we are not fooled, we really came to the south. We all feel good, the mood is amusing. And we hope that today, a little later, we will fly to the Vinson Base Camp".
Lyudmila Korobeshko, Ivan Dusharin and Maxim Shakirov will climb the last mountain of their attempt “Seven Summits in 300 days”.
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Sir Ranulph Fiennes to attempt record Antarctica trek
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By Matthew Price. BBC News. British explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes is to lead the first team on foot acrossAntarcticaduring the southern winter. The six-month expedition next year is being called the Coldest Journey, crossing terrain where ...
By Matthew Price. BBC News.
British explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes is to lead the first team on foot acrossAntarcticaduring the southern winter.
The six-month expedition next year is being called the Coldest Journey, crossing terrain where the temperature has hit -90C.
It will be 68-year-old Sir Ranulph's latest record attempt. Past feats have seen him go pole to pole and climb Everest as a pensioner.
Guinness World Records describes him as the world's greatest living explorer.
"We do it because we like to break world records," says Sir Ranulph, his bushy eyebrows icing up while on a training session close to theArctic.
"Sometimes we don't succeed, but it's what we go for. It's our specialty."
The team will be dropped off by ship on the Pacific coast of the continent and wait for the equinox on 21 March 2013 before setting off over the ice shelf.
'Impossible' expedition
A hundred years ago on the same ice shelf, Capt Scott died on his polar expedition as he was caught out by the start of the southern winter.
Achievements of Sir Ranulph Fiennes
2009: Became the oldest Briton to reach the summit ofMount Everest, aged 65, after earlier attempts
2003: Ran seven marathons on seven continents in seven days - after suffering a heart attack a few months earlier
2000: Lost most fingers on his left hand to frostbite during an unaided attempt to reach the north pole - and carried out amputations himself using a fretsaw
1992-93: First unaided crossing of the Antarctic continent
1991: Led an expedition that discovered the Lost City of Ubar on the Yemeni border
1990: Set world record for unsupported northerly polar travel
1979-82: Made the first journey round the world crossing through both the north and south poles, travelling on sea and land
- First to reach both poles and cross Antarctic and ArcticOceans
1968-69: Led the first hovercraft expedition up the Nile- the longest river in the world
Sir Ranulph and his team will start their expedition as the winter begins.
They will then ascend 10,000ft (3,000m) on to the inland plateau, and head onwards to the south pole.
After that, it is several hundred miles before they drop 11,000ft back on to the ice shelf, and finally some 2,000 miles (3,200km) after they started, they hope to reach the Ross Sea.
"We looked at this 25 years ago and realised it was impossible," says Sir Ranulph.
So why do it now?
Rivalry is a large part of the answer.
"We heard a rumour that Norwegian explorers were contemplating this. We realised we were going to have to have a go."
There are other motivations. As with previous expeditions they will raise money for charity - this time for Seeing is Believing, an initiative to fight avoidable blindness.
During the sea voyage to get to the Antarctic coast, the team will carry out scientific tasks to provide data on marine life, oceanography and meteorology.
While crossingAntarctica, they will also help scientists who are compiling information about changes to the ice shelf and the effect of climate change upon the poles.
Sir Ranulph and his fellow explorers normally pull sledges carrying everything they need with them on such journeys.
This time will be different.
The explorer is well known for taking part in the first successful circumnavigation of the world on its polar axis, completed with Charles Burton in 1982
The British government stipulates that any team heading toAntarcticafor such a trip needs to be self-sufficient.
So while Sir Ranulph and a skiing partner will lead on foot, they will be followed by two bulldozers dragging industrial sledges.
Inside three containers on the sledges will be their living quarters, supplies, and a science lab. Dragged behind this will be the fuel they need.
'Coldest place on earth'
It is as extreme as you can possibly get... Your lungs definitely suffer. The air going in is so cold it's going to freeze some of the moisture that's in that system”
Every bit of kit needs to be tested - even invented - if they are to make it alive across one of the most inhospitable terrains.
So, Sir Ranulph and his team spent several days at a vehicle testing ground in northernSwedenearlier this year.
They will expect blizzards, darkness, and whiteouts. "At -70C a wind of even just 10mph will cut you like a knife," says Sir Ranulph.
To help them avoid crevasses up to 200ft deep, the two skiers will pull a ground-penetrating radar system which will relay pictures to the lead vehicle.
Like much of the equipment, though, they do not know if it will work.
"This technology is used extensively inAntarctica, but in the summer," says Steve Holland, who is running the expedition's equipment research team.
This team is "taking a technology and pushing it even further", he adds.
"For smaller items of equipment we can do cold chamber work - and we did this with clothing. But that's to see whether it becomes brittle and is going to break.
Sir Ranulph is heading to the coldest place on Earth at the coldest time of year
"It doesn't tell you if it's going to work at those temperatures."
"It is as extreme as you can possibly get," says Dr Mike Stroud, who has accompanied Sir Ranulph on several expeditions and has been advising him on this one.
"The challenge is whether it is possible to operate and be out there in the coldest place on earth at the coldest time of the year."
"Your lungs definitely suffer. The air going in is so cold it's going to freeze some of the moisture that's in that system."
Frostbite will inevitably be a problem. At -40C during the Swedish training, the fingers of one team member simply froze up after exposure to the cold for too long.
They have been experimenting with boot warmers. Ski bindings will have to be adapted to fit the clumpy footwear.
They are also developing a giant "thermal bag" for the vehicles so the engines do not freeze during rest stops.
On one night inSweden, the temperature was -35C outside the cover, 35C inside it, simply from the heat of the running engine.
However, if any of this is to succeed it is Sir Ranulph who must make it across on foot.
And at 68 years old, is it really a wise thing to be attempting?
"You just must not think about getting old. If you still are lucky enough to be able to walk around not stooped, no crutch, no Zimmer frame, then you might as well go for it."
Antarctic Season for the 7 Summits Club is successfully ended. Photos
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Dmitry Ermakov sent a message and photos already from Punta Arenas. He and his groupe came back from Antarctica. Dragan Jovovich from Serbia, the Russians Dmitry Kuznetsov and Vladimir Pankratenko with Dmitry successfully completed the Last ...
Dmitry Ermakov sent a message and photos already from Punta Arenas. He and his groupe came back from Antarctica. Dragan Jovovich from Serbia, the Russians Dmitry Kuznetsov and Vladimir Pankratenko with Dmitry successfully completed the Last Degree program. Before that, Dmitry Ermakov went up on Mount Vinson with a large group of 7 Summits Club. Total for season 7 Summits Club had two groups on the Vinson and two in the Last Degree.
Today we successfully reached the South Pole
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7 Summits, hello! Dmitry Ermakov, from Antarctica, from the South Pole. Today we successfully reached the South Pole. And today, we visited the Amundsen-Scott Polar station. All team members are satisfied and happy. Tomorrow we will stay ...
7 Summits, hello! Dmitry Ermakov, from Antarctica, from the South Pole. Today we successfully reached the South Pole. And today, we visited the Amundsen-Scott Polar station. All team members are satisfied and happy. Tomorrow we will stay for the 100th anniversary of the conquest of the Pole by Robert Scott. The day after tomorrow we fly to the Union Glacier and on .... All is well, the mood is perfect...
The group went on the route for the Last Degree program
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7 Summits, hello! This is Dmitry Ermakov from Antarctica. Today is the first day of our journey on the program Last Degree. After three days of waiting, the plane took us to the 89 degrees mark. Today we went about four kilometers. Now we ...
7 Summits, hello! This is Dmitry Ermakov from Antarctica. Today is the first day of our journey on the program Last Degree. After three days of waiting, the plane took us to the 89 degrees mark. Today we went about four kilometers. Now we are eating, getting ready for bed. Everything is okay, all right. Members feel good. In general, everything goes according to the plan. By !
News from Antarctica
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This is Alex Abramov from Punta Arenas. We have a very important message. Victor Boboc with the entire team successfully climbed the summit of Massif Vinson. That means, all members of the second team, as well as the first one, summited ...
This is Alex Abramov from Punta Arenas. We have a very important message. Victor Boboc with the entire team successfully climbed the summit of Massif Vinson. That means, all members of the second team, as well as the first one, summited Vinson Massif. Hooray! Next, Dima Ermakov is on the Union Glacier. Tomorrow his team should begin their journey Last Degree. In parallel, seven international teams will go. This will be a beautiful international campaign to the South Pole. I and Lyuda Korobeshko with a team of Russian IL-76 pilots celebrate Russian Christmas. Bye all!
The last degree. Luda Korobeshko called from the South Pole
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12/29/2011 Lyudmila Korobeshko, George Kuzmin and Alexander Viktorov from 7 Summits Club expedition reached the South Pole. The last two days have been quite heavy and intense. Alexander Viktorov was patient with his foot, and then George ...
12/29/2011 Lyudmila Korobeshko, George Kuzmin and Alexander Viktorov from 7 Summits Club expedition reached the South Pole. The last two days have been quite heavy and intense. Alexander Viktorov was patient with his foot, and then George suddenly fall ill. All plans have been violated. It is especially valuable that the group was able to reach the Pole without help of plane...
Lyudmila Korobeshko from Union Glacier
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Lyudmila Korobeshko from 7 Summits Club expedition to the South Pole on skis ... So today, December 19, our small group, it's Sasha Viktorov, George Kuzmin and Lyudmila Korobeshko, are still located on Union Glacier. Yesterday we said ...
Lyudmila Korobeshko from 7 Summits Club expedition to the South Pole on skis ... So today, December 19, our small group, it's Sasha Viktorov, George Kuzmin and Lyudmila Korobeshko, are still located on Union Glacier. Yesterday we said goodbye to our group, which flew up the base camp of Mount Vinson. We are waiting for our flight to the "Last degree" and made an outing to the glacier. We did a test for skis and sleds. We are even a little pleased that lingers in the Union Glacier camp, because we are wellfed. All feel great. We look forward to tomorrow's departure. Bye everyone!
Antarctic Ice Marathon and World record of Richard Donovan
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7 December 2011: Remarkable records were set across the board at the seventh running of the Antarctic Ice Marathon races, the southernmost marathon in the world, over the weekend. More than 40 competitors from 15 countries gathered on the ...
7 December 2011: Remarkable records were set across the board at the seventh running of the Antarctic Ice Marathon races, the southernmost marathon in the world, over the weekend. More than 40 competitors from 15 countries gathered on the frozen continent to take part in half,-marathon, marathon and ultramarathon races that would test the resolve of the most steely of running enthusiasts.
The events, which are held at Union Glacier camp, are the only official foot races within the Antarctic Circle on the mainland continent. This year’s event was particularly special as it coincided with the Centenary year of Man reaching the South Pole. On 1 December, Clement Thevenet (FRA) dominated the men’s marathon (42.195km) distance when running a record time of 3:47:07. In amazingly bright sunshine and temperatures of -18C, the Frenchman led from start to finish to take the title ahead of the USA’s Alvin Matthews and Matthew Von Ertfelda.
Yvonne Brown (GBR) was a worthy winner of the women’s race in 4:26:10, finishing ahead of two previous North Pole Marathon winners, Emer Dooley (IRL) and Alison Hamlett (GBR). The first three finishers broke the previous female record.
On 2 December, the Antarctic 100km began at 13:00 GMT and it took Thevenet a mere 12:09:06 hrs, another new Antarctic record, to add the title to his marathon victory. It was a colder affair with windchill temperatures dropping down to about -25C and the prolonged exposure causing two competitors , including Thevenet, requiring IV fluids after the race. Former winner, Mark de Keyser (BEL) was a very close second with Dave Deany (AUS) third.
To round off the record setting weekend, Richard Donovan (IRL) ran an epic 100 miles in a day (24:35:02 hrs) to coincide with the Centenary year celebrations. Darkness was not a problem for the Irishman as there are 24 hours of daylight in the interior of the Antarctic at this time of year.
Registration is now open for next year's Antarctic Ice Marathon & 100k trip, which is scheduled to occur from 19th - 23rd November 2012. For full details, see www.icemarathon.com.
MEN'S MARATHON
1. Clement Thevenet (FRA) - 3:47:07 hrs
2. Alvin Matthews (USA) - 4:38:19 hrs
3. Matthew Von Ertfelda (USA) - 4:52:58 hrs
4. Simon Abrahams (GBR) - 4:56:49 hrs
4. Joey McBreary (USA) - 4:56:49 hrs
6. Krzysztof Szachna (POL) - 5:02:50 hrs
7. Dave Kennedy (USA) - 5:06:42 hrs
8. Errol Damelin (GBR) - 5:14:30 hrs
9. Taco Jongman (NED) - 5:23:00 hrs
10. Doug Carrell (USA) - 5:44:26 hrs
11. Christopher Duff (USA) - 5:53:58 hrs
12. Rusty Berther (AUS) - 6:02:12 hrs
13. Ray Miller (USA) - 6:16:29 hrs
14. Riet Van de Velde (BEL) - 6:28:31 hrs
15. Ladislav Simek (CZE) - 6:29:52 hrs
16. Michael Parrott (CAN) - 6:39:06 hrs
17. Michael Bartl (GER) - 6:51:46 hrs
18. Jeremy Cashen (NZL) - 7:28:10
19. Tom Cashen (NZL) - 7:28:11 hrs
20. Mark Kooijman (PHI) - 7:31:18 hrs
21. Don Kern (USA) - 7:53:38 hrs
22. Sebastian Armenault (ARG) - 8:09:41 hrs
23. Anand Anantharaman (IND) - 8:45:40 hrs
* George Nichols (USA) ran a marathon on 2 December in 8:30:12 hrs
WOMEN'S MARATHON
1. Yvonne Brown (GBR) - 4:26:10 hrs
2. Emer Dooley (IRL) - 4:41:30 hrs
3. Alison Hamlett (GBR)- 4:46:39
4. Elizabeth Chapman (GBR) - 5:43:57 hrs
5. Sarah Ames (GER)- 6:35:58
6. Mala Honnatti (IND)- 7:11:26
7. Sophie Woo (NED) - 7:31:18 hrs
8. Rebecca Frechette (USA)- 8:43:50
9. Linh Huynh (CAN)- 8:44:53
* Bonnie Bailey (USA) ran a marathon on 2 December in 8:30:12 hrs
ANTARCTIC 100 KM
1. Clement Thevenet (FRA) - 12:09:06 hrs
2. Marc de Keyser (BEL) - 12:14:18 hrs
3. Dave Deany (AUS) - 13:48:14 hrs
4. Brent Weigner (USA) - 15:41:04 hrs
5. Matthew Von Ertfelda (USA) - 20:03:42 hrs
100 MILE POLAR CENTENARY RUN
1. Richard Donovan (IRL) - 24:35:02 hrs
WHITE CONTINENT HALF-MARATHON
1. Chad Bruce (CAN) - 2:30.32 hrs
2. Matt Kirby (GBR) - 3:01:01 hrs
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Richard Donovan, 42, from Galway in the west of Ireland, began his challenge in numbing sub-zero temperatures in Antarctica on January 31 and finished in Sydney just five days, nine hours and eight minutes later.
"What he did was staggering, quite remarkable," John O'Shea, founder and chief executive of third world charity Goal, told AFP, adding that the money raised would help the charity's work in Sudan's Darfur region.
"It is extraordinary given the conditions and the time scale involved. I can't believe he managed it. I am in awe of what he achieved to bring attention to the tragedy of Dafur and to alleviate the suffering there.
After starting in the Antarctic, Mr Donovan got on a plane to South Africa and completed a marathon in Cape Town. He then flew to Dubai and ran another one, completing three marathons in two days.
Braving snow storms that shut down London on Monday, Mr Donovan completed his fourth marathon there before going to Toronto in Canada for his fifth. Then it was on to Chile for a Santiago marathon and finally to Australia.
Over 129 hours, Mr Donovan endured extreme temperatures and only slept in the economy class seats of airplanes between continents, said Mr O'Shea.
In total he ran 183 miles and flew tens of thousands of miles.
"It brings into focus how little the world does and how much one man does for Dafur. He feels almost as strongly as I do about the lack of an adequate international response in Dafur where 400,000 people have died," Mr O'Shea said.
Goal has been working in Sudan since 1985 and spent about 18 million euros (£15.7 million) there on aid in 2007.
In 2002, Mr Donovan became the first person in the world to run a marathon at both the North and South Poles.
He now organises the northernmost marathon on earth, the North Pole Marathon, and the southernmost marathon on earth, the Antarctic Ice Marathon.
Mr Donovan has won the South Pole Marathon, the Inca Trail Marathon, the Everest Challenge Marathon, the Antarctic 100km and the Himalayan 100-Mile Stage Race.
Right from the Pole
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Bobok, right from the center of Antarctica. Today, December 14, Igor and I, together, two years later, and after 100 years since the first man reached the South Pole, we arrived at it. We are just happy with what is happening ! Ahead is a ...
Bobok, right from the center of Antarctica. Today, December 14, Igor and I, together, two years later, and after 100 years since the first man reached the South Pole, we arrived at it. We are just happy with what is happening ! Ahead is a rich cultural program, meeting with Prime Minister of Norway, the whole ceremony of the meeting. We are all very well, all is well. Life has gone right! All ardent greetings! Byu!
We are in ten kilometers from the South Pole
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Here Bobok Victor from Antarctica. All is excellent for us! We are in ten kilometers from the South Pole. Now we lie in tent and we will be waiting for the ceremony "the Entry on the Pole", on 14th of December. That is all – we ...
Here Bobok Victor from Antarctica. All is excellent for us! We are in ten kilometers from the South Pole. Now we lie in tent and we will be waiting for the ceremony "the Entry on the Pole", on 14th of December. That is all – we have crossed our 250 kilometers. And now a day of rest that we deserve. We brush up, clean up. And as I have already told, we wait for an input ceremony. Everything is OK. We made it ! The last 10 kilometers we get in any case, any weather. But - on December, 14th.
All ardent greetings!
Victor Bobok and Igor Grishkov
Victor Bobok and Igor Grishkov go along Amundsen's camps
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Victor Bobok and Igor Grishkov continue their journey to the South Pole. They go independently, separately from the Norwegian expedition. «For today we have passed 24 km, it remains for three days. If to look on a map, consider on a ...
Victor Bobok and Igor Grishkov continue their journey to the South Pole. They go independently, separately from the Norwegian expedition. «For today we have passed 24 km, it remains for three days. If to look on a map, consider on a straight line, it remains 55 km form 250 km on start. In a reality it will be 60 - 65 kilometers with all detours and obstacles.
We go in accuracy along Amundsen's camps. We read his diaries, we are verifying. The weather as it isn't strange, is the same as hundred years ago. Sometimes the horizon merges with the earth and the sky, then it is visible nothing. Temperatures - approximately from -20 to, one time -50 The most difficult was in the beginning of our way, due the absence of acclimatization at height and heavy sledge!
An altitude of a point of disembarkation was 3150 m., and the Pole, approximately 3800 m.
Every day we worked from 5-30 a.m. till 10 p.m.. The wind somehow blew, 12-19 meters per second, a real storm. So we have managed in this wind to remove our tent, to pass 8,5 km and to put it again! In the beginning we carried sledge on 50 kg everyone. But the sledges become now easier, we eat, we burn fuel down.
We hope to reach the Pole on December, 14th under the Russian flag with shouts «Forward!». Exactly 100 years after Amundsen.
Now we observe a bad weather, as in Amundsen's diaries.
All greetings!
Victor Bobok and Igor Grishkov
The plan for a season in Antarctica
South Pole.
Yesterday Alexander Abramov and Dmitry Ermakov have taken off for the South America for preparation of the main part of the Antarctic season. The large quantity of luggage has demanded big efforts to push in the plane. The season program ...
Yesterday Alexander Abramov and Dmitry Ermakov have taken off for the South America for preparation of the main part of the Antarctic season. The large quantity of luggage has demanded big efforts to push in the plane. The season program will be strained, and in Antarctica there is no place to buy there. So work, nerves, time – all should be spent, including in advance. Lyudmila Korobeshko will take off for Chile on Monday. So for time, this South American country becomes the main site of our Club.
During change in Madrid the friendly meeting with the Spanish climbers has occurred
The schedule of groups for the Antarctic summer
I Last Degree (16-29 Dec). The South Pole. Last degree.
1 Viktorov Alexander
2 Kuzmin George
The guide - Korobeshko Lyudmila
I Vinson (16-29 Dec). Mount Vinson. The tallest of Antarctica.
1 Beirit Konstantin
2 Kostrikin Pavel
3 Lukjanov Yury - Kazakhstan
4 Lukjanova Nadezhda - Kazakhstan
5 Rudenko Ivan
The guide 1 - Bobok Victor
The guide 2 - Ermakov Dmitry
III Vinson (29 Dec-12 JAN).
1 Ko Kan Fai - Hong Kong
2 Liu Wai Ming Haston - Hong Kong
3 Viktorov Alexander
4 Demjanenko Igor
5 Dudko Sergey
6 Krasnov Dmitry
7 Murtazina Dzhamilja
8 Tcherkashin Igor
The guide 1 - Bobok Victor
The guide 2 - Tsang Chi Sing John - Hong Kong
IV Last Degree (05-19 JAN) the South Pole. Last degree
1 Jovovic Dragan - Serbia
2 Kuznetsov Dmitry
3 Pankratenko Vladimir
The guide - Ermakov Dmitry
































































