The Route

Our record attempt takes us to one of the world's most awe inspiring places on earth: Antarctica. Our entry point will be via South America staging through Patriot Hills once we reach the ice shelf. This route provides us with the necessary logistics platform to put the team in the best possible position for attempting the record.  From Patriot Hills, we will take a flight down to the base of the Beardmore Glacier.  From here the route to the South Pole is roughly 480 miles. Uphill.

The British explorers Ernest Shackleton (1908) and Robert Scott (1911) discovered the Beardmore Glacier on route to the South Pole. Since these early heroic days, the glacier has been seen as the “British Route”. It is one of the world’s largest known valley glaciers - at 125 miles long, 25 miles wide and rising to a height of 2,200m.

The route up the Beardmore Glacier presents the team with some exceptional challenges. Apart from the cold and isolation, the glacier is heavily crevassed. In addition, the altitude rise to the high plateau and South Pole (3000m) is much steeper than on other routes, thereby increasing the physical demands on the team.

Once we clear the Beardmore Glacier, the team still has an arduous 355 mile uphill ski on the coldest, windiest, remote and unforgiving plateau on earth, in order to reach the South Pole. In record time.