Polar Expeditions
This website aims at covering polar expeditions by publishing an introdution and linking to the official expedition website. Major expeditions are followed-up more closely through regularly published news, pictures galleries and multimedia files.
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Save the Poles 2009
scheduled - from 01.03.2009 to 20.06.2009
In 2009, Eric Larsen will begin an unprecedented journey to the top, bottom and roof of the world. During a continuous 365-day period, Larsen will mount major expeditions to the summit of Mt. Everest, the South Pole and North Pole. This feat has never been completed in one year. To date, only 15 people (no Americans) in history have been to all three poles'.
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Catlin Arctic Survey
abandoned - from 28.02.2009 to 20.06.2009
This scientific endeavour begins in early February 2009. The expedition is being led by highly experienced polar explorer Pen Hadow. Accompanying him will be Ann Daniels, one of the world's foremost female polar explorers and Martin Hartley, leading expedition photographer.
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SouthPole Quest
success - from 22.12.2008
In December 2008, three world-class adventurers will trek 680 miles (1094 kilometers), from Hercules Inlet to South Pole, self-supported, to the South Pole in a goal of under 40 days.
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The last degree
success - from 02.12.2008 to 25.12.2008
The IceAxeTV company gives a number of people the opportunity to practise their polar skills out on the Antarctic icecap. It gives people the opportunity to complete a journey in the best possible conditions over the final one degree of latitude before reaching the South Pole (approximately 111 km).
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Matrix Shackleton Centenary Expedition
success - from 15.11.2008 to 20.01.2009
Six descendants of the famous British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton have decided to follow in the footsteps of their illustrious forebear and recreate in 2009 what was called the Nimrod Expedition' back in 1909. Their aim is to finish off the job begun a century ago by the "Boss".
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SoloAntarctica
success - from 15.11.2008 to 20.01.2009
A career soldier in Her Majesty's army, Mark Langridge is attempting the trek between Hercules Inlet and the South Pole, and then back again. He will be dropping off his own supplies for the return trip on the outward leg of the journey.
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Transantarctic Expedition
scheduled - from 15.11.2008 to 20.01.2009
A group of "ordinary people with ordinary jobs" (as the press file puts it so well) is attempting to cross the continent from side to side using new methods of propulsion powered by biofuel., It is led by three polar region specialists, Andrew Regan, Andrew Moon and Jason de Carteret.
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Finnish South Pole Expedition 2008
success - from 15.11.2008 to 20.01.2009
The two Finnish adventurers, Kari Poppis Suomela and Pasi Ikonen, are attempting the classic trek between Hercules Inlet and the South Pole, without any outside assistance..
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IceCold in Antarctica
ongoing - from 15.11.2008 to 20.01.2009
Here's another adventurous expedition for the tour operator ANI (Adventure Network International). This time, the five or six members of the expedition will be setting out from the Ronne Iceshelf (which has become known as the 'Messner Start') and heading for the South Pole. The polar adventurer, teacher and dog-musher Eric Larsen will be their guide.
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Base to the South Pole
success - from 15.11.2008 to 20.01.2009
Led by their 24-year-old guide, Sarah McNair-Landry, four tourists are attempting what has become the classic Antarctic route between Hercules Inlet and the South Pole. Their names are Tom Davenport, Steven Gates, Kari Gundeso and Ross Maxwell.
