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UK-led ski team reach South Pole and aim for trans-Antarctic speed record
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Four skiers led by Londoner Patrick Woodhead have reached the South Pole in record time, after a 37-day trek from Ross Ice Shelf. Their objective is to cross the Antarctic - also in record time - and will complete the rest of the journey using kite power.
The The Invesco Perpetual Trans-Antarctica Challenge involves two teams - the skiers, and another group who are crossing the continent in the opposite direction using production-issue Land Rovers. [Click below to read on]

Photo: www.whitedesert.co.uk ...

The skiers, numbering three Brits and a Canadian, reached the South Pole on 22 December and will now switch from pulling sleds to being pulled by the wind to ski the next 750 miles. Woodhead, who in 2002 became the youngest Briton to reach the South Pole, is optimistic about the power of the Flexifoil kites they will be using:

"They are incredibly powerful things, so if we manage to get them under control we are going to be able to sail across that distance. The way the winds work, we should be able to sail the whole way back."

Reports from the London Evening Standard and Reuters.

Here is the official expedition website with a lot more information.

And information about the 'depowerable foil kite' the team will be using - the Flexifoil Sabre - is here.

Patrick Woodhead's website: www.whitedesert.co.uk
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David Goldsmith, makes a change from the good old days of British exploration of the Antarctic, when skis were spurned in favour of....ponies!
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