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«Polarwalk»
« Two men, 3.000 kilometers, Eight months in the ice... »
Stefan Hieronimus and Rainer Wacker will traverse Greenland and Antarctica in eight months only afoot and without using any other conveyances ("by fair means"). They will cross both earth poles at their widest distance - a trip
of about 3,000 kilometers in the arctic ice. With temperatures down to minus 50 degrees Celsius (minus 58 degrees Fahrenheit) the two extreme sportsmen will partly use the routes of the old science-men and conquerers Roald Amundsen and Alfred Wegener, who both died at their work in Greenland and Antarctica...
The crossing of the Greenland inland ice
at its widest point - unsupported - has been done by only one expedition before. Other expeditions used "kites" (parachute-like sails to use wind power to pull humans and sleighs) or dog sleighs. Stefan Hiernonimus and Rainer Wacker want to walk the historic route of Wegener afoot and want to accomplish it. They even use the Greenland expedition to optimize their strategy and
equipment for the Antarctica cross line.
No expedition before has ever tried to cross Antarctica only afoot and on skis so far. All expeditions, even those who titled themselves "unsupported", used "kites". Stages of 170 kilometers (about 105.5 miles) per day can be reached with this technique. Others used depots at their routes. The
POLARWALK will traverse the South Pole only afoot for the first time in history!
«The mission about the Polarwalk 2007»
"That egoistic - but, how we think, legitimate - goal is much more than self-actualization and adventure. We want to let those dreams come true, that we dreamed in our childhood! We like to invide others to fullfil their dreams, their wishes, their aspirations, their goals...
Our routs follow partly them of heroic polar explorers like Roald Amundsen and Alfred Wegener. Their restless Ghosts will be our only attenders for lonesome kilometers in the ice. This is the way how historic expeditions meet modern pioneering spirit and adventure."
Stefan Hieronimus
More information:
www.polarwalk.com
