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Tuesday, Dec 15
97-year-old butter found at Robert Scott's Antarctic base
Scott used the hut as a base for his ill-fated expedition to the South Pole in January 1912. He was beaten to the Pole by the Norwegian explorer Roald ... Century-old butter found in Scott's Antarctic hutAFP You wouldn't want this on your toast: 100-year-old pat of butter found at ...Daily Mail
Thursday, May 21
Sir Ranulph Fiennes becomes oldest Briton to conquer Everest
UK Sir Ranulph, who is also the first person to reach both the North Pole and the South Pole by surface travel and the first to cross the Antarctic unsupported, was resting last night at Camp IV, 900m below the summit. He sent a message thanking his ...
Sunday, May 17
Packing Indiana Jones style for the frozen north
UK Famously, Roald Amundsen got to the South Pole before Scott largely because he'd learnt from the Inuit to use dogs, broaden the runners of his sledges and so on. But he was also the first to navigate the North-West Passage in 1906 — 60 years after ...
Wednesday, Apr 22
Encounters at the End of the World
UK And Herzog fantasises that, in millennia to come, when climate change has made Antarctica's melting icebergs truly the end of the world, alien archaeologists may uncover at the South Pole, alone, perfectly preserved at minus 70C temperatures, ...
