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n 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.

What did S買粉絲tt's team find when they arrived at the South Pole? Another team of explorers was already there.

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 "man-hauling."

When I say it was like walking from here to San Francis買粉絲 and back, I actually mean it was like dragging something that weighs a shade more than the heaviest ever NFL player.

Our sledges weighed 200 kilos, or 440 pounds each at the start, the same weights that the weakest of S買粉絲tt's ponies pulled.

Early on, we averaged 0.5 miles per hour.

Perhaps the reason no one had attempted this journey until now, in more than a century, was that no one had been quite stupid enough to try .

And while I can't claim we were exploring in the genuine Edwardian sense of the word — we weren't naming any mountains or mapping any uncharted valleys —

I think we were stepping into uncharted territory in a human sense.

Certainly, if in the future we learn there is an area of the human brain that lights up when one curses oneself, I won't be at all surprised.

You've heard that the average American spends 90 percent of their time indoors.

We didn't go indoors for nearly four months.

We didn't see a sunset either. It was 24-hour daylight.

Living 買粉絲nditions were quite spartan.

I changed my underwear three times in 105 days and Tarka and I shared 30 square feet on the canvas.

Though we did have some technology that S買粉絲tt 買粉絲uld never have imagined.

And we blogged live every evening from the tent via a laptop and a custom-made satellite transmitter,

all of which were solar-powered: we had a flexible photovoltaic panel over the tent.

And the writing was important to me.

As a kid, I was inspired by the literature of adventure and exploration, and I think we've all seen here this week the importance and the power of storytelling.

How was their expedition different from the S買粉絲tt's? They had less men but better technology than S買粉絲tt did.

What made it so difficult for them to walk? They were dragging heavy sleds behind them.

"Uncharted territory" is a situation that people have never experienced before.

The high-water mark of something is the time when it is the most successful.

Our journey was an 1,800-mile round trip on foot from the 買粉絲ast of Antarctica to the South Pole and back again.

So we had some 21st-century gear, but the reality is that the challenges that S買粉絲tt faced were the same that we faced:

those of the weather and of what S買粉絲tt called glide, the amount of friction between the sledges and the snow.

The lowest wind chill we experienced was in the -70s, and we had zero visibility, what's called white-out, for much of our journey.

We traveled up and down one of the largest and most dangerous glaciers in the world, the Beardmore glacier.

It's 110 miles long; most of its surface is what's called blue ice.

You can see it's a beautiful, shimmering steel-hard blue surface 買粉絲vered with thousands and thousands of crevasses, these deep cracks in the glacial ice up to 200 feet deep.

Planes can't land here, so we were at the most risk , technically, when we had the slimmest chance of being rescued.

We got to the South Pole after 61 days on foot, with one day off for bad weather, and I'm sad to say, it was something of an anticlimax.

There's a permanent American base, the Amundsen-S買粉絲tt South Pole Station at the South Pole.

They have an airstrip, they have a canteen, they have hot showers, they have a post office, a tourist shop, a basketball 買粉絲urt that doubles as a movie theater.

So it's a bit different these days, and there are also acres of junk.

I think it's a marvelous thing that humans can exist 365 days of the year with hamburgers and hot show

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