Shackleton Trans-Antarctic Centenary Expedition 2015 SOUTH POLE

On 27th Oct 1915 Shackleton’s ship the Endurance, trapped in sea ice for 9 months, was finally crushed and abandoned, ending the expedition’s hopes and sparking the greatest survival story of all time. Exactly 100 years on, Stew Edge and Devon McDiarmid, a British and Canadian team, will commemorate Shackleton’s attempt to cross Antarctica, reviving the spirit of the Endurance and completing a crossing from the Weddell Coast to the South Pole and back again. The expedition will see sledges pulled 1,300 miles over 60 days in the world’s most extreme conditions. The team can expect temperatures of -40°C and winds of 100 mph, crossing dangerous crevasse fields and mountain ranges. It will be one of the longest journeys ever attempted on foot and will be an epic undertaking. The team will be skiing to the Pole hoping to average 16 Miles a day for 40 days. On the return leg to the Coast, the team plans to use kites to speed up their travel, in place of Husky dogs used 100 years ago. They expect to take up to 20 days to kite back from the Pole, covering 40 miles a day. They will be using the Forty Below Fresh Tracks overboots and testing the 40 Below PoleMitts on the expedition!