Extreme How-To: Visiting the South Pole

When a person is resting in a tent in the middle of Antarctica, you'd expect him to be wearing a little more than just his underwear. But that's the situation Sam Deltour caught himself in just a few days ago. "I was just sitting here," he says, "Then I realized it was minus 14 degrees Celsius [7 degrees Fahrenheit] in the tent. It's weird because our bodies are adjusted."

Deltour, a medical student, is crossing Antarctica on skis pulled by giant kites with Dixie Dansercour, a veteran of extreme adventuring who makes polar trips twice a year. The two-person Belgian team is 23 days into a 100-day trip across the continent. Just like Amundsen's south pole party 100 years ago, they are completely autonomous, carrying with them everything they'll need for the journey, down to the last sheet of toilet paper. But precisely what they're carrying and how it's being transported shows just how much polar expeditions have changed in the last century.

Source: http://www.popularmechanics.com/outdoors/survival/gear/extreme-how-to-visiting-the-south-pole?src=rss

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