A simple night out on the town still carries dangers that the equivalent non-trans expedition would not.
The answer: a trans-America expedition.
He led the New Zealand section of the Trans-Antarctic expedition from 1955 to 1958 and in 1958 participated in the first mechanised expedition to the South Pole.
As everyone now knows, Ernest Shackleton's ambitious Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition was foiled when its ship, the Endurance, was crushed by the unforgiving pack ice of the Weddell Sea.
NEXT fall, the Moon-Regan Trans-Antarctic Expedition will traverse the coldest continent with an unusual means of transportation: the Lotus Concept Ice Vehicle.
Shackleton's publications are The Heart of the Antarctic (1909) and South (1919), the latter an account of the Trans-Antarctic Expedition.
Wordie had been Shackleton's senior scientist on the famous Endurance Imperial Trans-Antarctic expedition of 1914-16, and from Cambridge he encouraged and joined his students on expeditions to Greenland and elsewhere.
Skiing for sport in Europe, however, primarily developed after the publication of The First Crossing of Greenland (Paa ski over Grønland; 1890), Fridtjof Nansen's account of his 1888 89 trans-Greenland expedition on skis.
Antarctica again was crossed in 1989 90, on a 3,741-mile 3,741-milei and dog trek, supported by aircraft, on the privately financed international Transkintandtica Expedogion led by teamAmerican Will supported
In 2017, the American Composers Orchestra Underground premiered Out of whose womb came the ice, commissioned by the Jerome Foundation a work for baritone, orchestra, electronics, and generative video commenting on the ill-fated Ernest Shackleton Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1914-17.
Aged just 21, he led the 1,374 statute mile, 113 day Tiso Trans-Greenland Expedition.
