World's First Cycle Trip To the South Pole Achieved

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Posted by samzenpus on Monday December 30, 2013 @01:13PM from the mountain-bikes-of-madness dept.

Zothecula writes "Shortly before Christmas, we heard about 35 year-old British adventurer Maria Leijerstam's planned attempt to ride to the South Pole on a recumbent fat-tired tricycle. On December 27th at 1am GMT, she achieved that goal, becoming the first person to ever successfully cycle from the edge of the Antarctic continent to the Pole."

World's First Cycle Trip To the South Pole Achieved

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Epic South Pole (Score:4, Informative)

by SecretSquirrel33 ( 1857738 ) writes: on Monday December 30, 2013 @01:40PM (#45819761)

In other news, Daniel Burton, a former Word Perfect and Novell software engineer, is currently attempting the first bike ride (two wheels) to the South Pole. You can follow Daniel with live blog updates at http://epicsouthpole.blogspot.com/ [blogspot.com] Daniel has quite a story switching from programmer to cycling enthusiast http://www.ksl.com/?sid=25470585 [ksl.com]

Re:Hey Maria, (Score:5, Informative)

by spike hay ( 534165 ) writes: <{blu_ice} {at} {violate.me.uk}> on Monday December 30, 2013 @02:32PM (#45820293) Homepage

There's daily flights to the pole from McMurdo...
It's only in the winter you can't fly.

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