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Statistiques de la course

Résultats de la première manche

De Gauche à droite: DAVID HEMPLEMAN-ADAMS - JOCK WISHART - NEILL WILLIAMS - GARY WALKER

Rien, depuis l'épique et ultime bataille tragique entre Amundsen et Scott pour être le premier au pôle Nord n'avait été une telle course dans les régions polaires. Les participants devront se débrouiller à des températures de - 40°C en transportant une luge de 70 kg pendant 350 miles à travers les terrains vagues de glace, évitant les trous d'eau et en prenant garde au très réel danger des ours polaires.

Ceux qui termineront la course polaire, qui devrait durer 30 jours, auront probablement terminé la course polaire la plus difficile au monde."

POLAR RACE

WE NEED 20 MORE PARTICIPANTS FROM THE POLAR NATIONS – CANADA, USA, NORWAY, SWEDEN, FINLAND, FRANCE, GERMANY, ITALY AND JAPAN TO JOIN 23 BRITISH PARTICIPANTS ALREADY SIGNED UP

RACE STARTS APRIL 2003

In a cold store in the Corporation of London’s Smithfield market, Britain’s two leading modern day adventurers, David Hempleman-Adams and Jock Wishart, launched the first ever Polar Race.
The race, which will start from Resolute Bay in Canada’s former North West Territories in April next year, is open to teams of two or three or from individuals who, after assessment, will be put into their own compatible teams. Entries, which are limited to 45 people in total, male or female, are now being accepted from experienced polar adventurers.

All competitors will be given the same standard equipment, which they will be required to pull on a sledge, over 350 miles to the finish line at Isachson, an abandoned Canadian base, which is in the vicinity of the North Magnetic Pole. Novices are allowed more outside resupplies, which will help create a “level playing field” for all competitors.

Entries inclusive of all equipment, training, flights and accommodation will cost £18,000 per person.

Hempleman-Adams and Wishart have enormous experience in the adventure “arena” having numerous firsts to their credit. In 1996 they jointly organised “the expedition with a difference”, the Ultimate Challenge, when they successfully took 10 novices selected from 500 applicants on the first ever-televised polar trek to the North Magnetic Pole. They are being aided by two long standing colleagues Neill Williams and Gary Walker, all of whom have worked together successfully in the past.

Not since the epic and ultimately tragic battle between Amundsen and Scott to be first to the South Pole has there been such a race in the Polar Regions. Competitors will be expected to fend for themselves in temperatures as low as –40 degrees centigrade while “man hauling” a 70 kilo sledge over 350 miles through the icy wastes, avoiding open water and being aware of the very real danger of polar bears.

Those who finish the Polar Race, which is expected to last 30 days, will have completed “probably” the world’s toughest race. For further information on how to enter please contact.