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Sep 18, 2016 · Race to the Pole: With Andrew Munro, Dean O'Gorman, Amy Usherwood, Joel Tobeck. Ed is spending the winter in Antarctica, setting up Scott Base and getting itchy feet. Meanwhile, Bunny is dragging his heels at Shackleton and wants Ed to sit around and wait.
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Jul 9, 2022 · Ed is homesick and bored with setting up supply bases for the Antarctica expedition. He decides to try for another major achievement: reaching the South Pole...
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As part of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition he reached the South Pole overland in 1958. He subsequently reached the North Pole, making him the first person to reach both poles and summit Everest. Time named him one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century.
- Science and Nationalism
- The Hillary Factor
- To The Pole by Tractor
- End of Empire
The expedition’s origins go back to 1953, when Vivian Fuchs, a geologist with the Falkland Islands Dependency Survey, began circulating a proposal for the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (TAE). This would be the first overland crossing of the frozen continent. Although Fuchs later stressed the scientific potential of his plan – which he sai...
For Fuchs to succeed in journeying from the Weddell Sea to the Ross Sea via the South Pole, his plan – like that of Ernest Shackleton’s ill-fated attempt40 years earlier – depended on a supporting party from New Zealand. Led by Edmund Hillary, an international celebrity since his 1953 ascent of Mt Everest, this party would lay depots of food and fu...
The newly established Scott Base was intended to serve the interests of both New Zealand’s IGY and TAE parties, and was placed under Hillary’s command. In fact, it was Hillary who selected, in a last-minute change, the base’s location on Ross Island, as it was more convenient for the TAE’s priority of travelling over the Polar Plateau. This was to ...
Shortly after his arrival at the Pole, Hillary sent a message to Fuchs suggesting he abandon his plans for completing a crossing, given the difficult conditions. This telegram was accidentally released to the New Zealand press. By the time Fuchs arrived at the Pole on January 19, a media firestorm had exploded. The expedition was now characterised ...
Hillary: With Hillary Clinton, Jennifer Palmieri, Amy Chozick, Peter Baker. A look at the life and work of Hillary Rodham Clinton, interweaving biographical chapters of her life with behind-the-scenes footage from her 2016 U.S. presidential campaign.
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Bunny Fuchs is crossing Antarctica and Ed is on the opposite side setting up supply bases for the second half of Bunny’s journey. Ed is bored and missing home. As his supply bases get closer to the South Pole, he decides he wants to make it there himself.
