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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
I worked for a GP who wanted to climb the highest mountain on every continent. (he turned back 200 feet from the Everest summit on the climb when all those guys died). His Antartica story is insane. a week snowmobile to the mountain, a week climb a week snowmobile back.
But that actually sounds more doable than a marathon there. Do they prepare some cleared route?
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It's the Antarctica marathon, not the South Pole marathon. They run on one of the peninsulas that comes farther north. No trees and not terribly much snow, though I think you have to dodge the penguins.
The year my fil and his partner ran it, they weren't able to land on the designated race day because of bad weather (though they explored on another day), so they had to run on the ship. Hundreds and hundreds of laps, changing direction at intervals. Oy.
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