– 180 Degrees Pole to Pole Manpowered

On eteachNet, our colleague Darren Rigby recommends this site featuring the extraordinary record this two British teenagers will attempt : going from pole to pole with skis and bikes.
http://www.180degrees.co.uk/
This trans-global expedition organised by Rob Gauntlett and James Hooper will commence in March 2007. You can watch a video presenting their project, download their brochure and read their pages about being inspirational for other youngsters and about the logistics of their expedition:
http://www.180degrees.co.uk/intro.php
Darren also recommends this article in the Guardian about them
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/travel/story/0,,1876876,00.html
Their last expedition made them the youngest Britons to climb Mount Everest (8850m). Read about them and this last expedition on their site:
http://www.everest-2006.com/
to know them : http://www.everest-2006.com/about.php
to know how they train : http://www.everest-2006.com/exped/train.php
to read what the local newspaper for West Sussex writes: http://www.theargus.co.uk/display.var.890466.0.0.php
article from the BBC : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/4768123.stm

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