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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:2007 Antarctic Expedition Team To Attempt Ernest Shackleton's 'Endurance' Route to the South Pole
TRUCKEE, CA -- This November, Californian, and veteran Antarctic-adventurer, Doug Stoup will guide a two-man team, 660 miles along Ernest Shackleton's planned 1915 'Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition' route to the South Pole.
Dragging 250-pound sleds over the frozen Antarctic landscape, the three intrepid explorers include James Fox, a British real estate developer (and photographer) and Richard Dunwoody, one of Britain's most successful jockeys.
The team is hoping to reach the Geographic South Pole using Shackleton's original mapped route -- which was never attempted due to the destruction of the 'Endurance.'
The journey begins in Cape Town, South Africa with an overseas flight to an ice runway on the Russian meteorological base, Novolazarevshaya. After acclimatization, the team again takes to the air over Dronning Maud Land (Western Antarctica) to the Shackleton mountain range. Here, trekking through extreme conditions, up and over elevations of 10,000 feet, they will push the limits of human endurance dragging everything they need to survive on sleds attached to their bodies.
The team will document the daily challenges to survive high-altitude, sub-zero conditions over crevasse fields and rugged ice-pack in uncharted territory.
Doug Stoup has traveled, climbed, skied and snowboarded in some of the most remote regions on the planet. He climbed three of the seven summits (Denali, Kilimanjaro and Vinson Massif), and was the first American male to ski to the South Pole. His more recent journeys have included: South Georgia for the filming of Warren Miller's feature film, STORM; Anvers Island (off the coast of Antarctica); Ama Dablam and Cho Oyu in the Himalayas; and his famed Ice Bike Expedition -- a solo test of a protoype bike on Antarctic glacial ice. He also participated in Pole Track -- an international North Pole expedition supporting climate change research.
Stoup is married, has two children and lives in the Sierra Nevada mountains, just outside Truckee, California.
For more information, visit: BeyondShackleton.com
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