The men aim to cover 2,600km of snow and ice over 110 days, conquering Antarctica’s two permanent ice sheets, all while pulling a 200kg sled each. If completed, they will follow in the footsteps of other great explorers, such as Borge Ousland who journeyed across the region in 1997, albeit […]
Antarctica
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — At this very moment a vast world exists that’s free of the coronavirus, where people can mingle without masks and watch the pandemic unfold from thousands of miles away. That world is Antarctica, the only continent without COVID-19. Now, as nearly 1,000 scientists and others who wintered […]