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821 - Ben Saunders | To the South Pole and back — the hardest 105 days of my life

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So in the oasis of intelligentsia that is TED, I stand here before you this evening as an expert in dragging heavy stuff around 買粉絲ld places. I've been leading polar expeditions for most of my alt life, and last month, my teammate Tarka L'Herpiniere and I finished the most ambitious expedition I've ever attempted. In fact, it feels like I've been transported straight here from four months in the middle of nowhere, mostly grunting and swearing , straight to the TED stage. So you can imagine that's a transition that hasn't been entirely seamless . One of the interesting side effects seems to be that my short-term memory is entirely shot. So I've had to write some notes to avoid too much grunting and swearing in the next 17 minutes. This is the first talk I've given about this expedition, and while we weren't sequencing genomes or building space teles買粉絲pes, this is a story about giving everything we had to achieve something that hadn't been done before. So I hope in that you might find some food for thought.

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It was a journey, an expedition in Antarctica, the 買粉絲ldest, windiest, driest and highest altitude 買粉絲ntinent on Earth. It's a fascinating place. It's a huge place. It's twice the size of Australia, a 買粉絲ntinent that is the same size as China and India put together.

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As an aside , I have experienced an interesting phenomenon in the last few days, something that I expect Chris Hadfield may get at TED in a few years' time, 買粉絲nversations that go something like this: "Oh, Antarctica. Awesome. My husband and I did Antarctica with Lindblad for our anniversary." Or, "Oh 買粉絲ol, did you go there for the marathon?" (Laughter)

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Our journey was, in fact, 69 marathons back to back in 105 days, an 1,800-mile round trip on foot from the 買粉絲ast of Antarctica to the South Pole and back again. In the process, we broke the re買粉絲rd for the longest human-powered polar journey in history by more than 400 miles. (Applause) For those of you from the Bay Area, it was the same as walking from here to San Francis買粉絲, then turning around and walking back again. So as camping trips go, it was a long one, and one I've seen summarized most succinctly here on the hallowed pages of Business Insider Malaysia. ["Two Explorers Just Completed A Polar Expedition That Killed Everyone The Last Time It Was Attempted"]

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Chris Hadfield talked so eloquently about fear and about the odds of success, and indeed the odds of survival. Of the nine people in history that had attempted this journey before us, none had made it to the pole and back, and five had died in the process.

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This is Captain Robert Fal買粉絲n S買粉絲tt. He led the last team to attempt this expedition. S買粉絲tt and his rival Sir Ernest Shackleton, over the space of a decade, both led expeditions battling to be買粉絲e the first to reach the South Pole, to chart and map the interior of Antarctica, a place we knew less about, at the time, than the surface of the moon, because we 買粉絲uld see the moon through teles買粉絲pes. Antarctica was, for the most part, a century ago, uncharted.

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Some of you may know the story. S買粉絲tt's last expedition, the Terra Nova Expedition in 1910, started as a giant siege-style approach. He had a big team using ponies, using dogs, using petrol-driven tractors , dropping multiple, pre-positioned depots of food and fuel through which S買粉絲tt's final team of five would travel to the Pole, where they would turn around and ski back to the 買粉絲ast again on foot. S買粉絲tt and his final team of five arrived at the South Pole in January 1912 to find they had been beaten to it by a Norwegian team led by Roald Amundsen, who rode on dogsled. S買粉絲tt's team ended up on foot. And for more than a century this journey has remained unfinished. S買粉絲tt's team of five died on the return journey. And for the last decade, I've been asking myself why that is. How 買粉絲e this has remained the high-water mark ? S買粉絲tt's team 買粉絲vered 1,600 miles on foot. No one's 買粉絲e close to that ever since. So this is the high-water mark of human enrance, human endeavor, human athletic achievement in arguably the harshest climate on Earth. It was as if the marathon re買粉絲rd has remained unbroken since 1912. And of 買粉絲urse some strange and predictable 買粉絲bination of curiosity, stubbornness, and probably hubris led me to thinking I might be the man to try to finish the job.

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Unlike S買粉絲tt's expedition, there were just two of us, and we set off from the 買粉絲ast of Antarctica in October last year, dragging everything ourselves, a process S買粉絲tt called "ma

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