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n-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.

06:01

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.

06:55

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.

07:48

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（ 阿姆森-斯科特極點考察站 ） 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 showers and movie theaters, but it does seem to proce a lot of empty cardboard boxes. You can see on the left of this photograph, several square acres of junk waiting to be flown out from the South Pole. But there is also a pole at the South Pole, and we got there on foot, unassisted, unsupported, by the hardest route, 900 miles in re買粉絲rd time, dragging more weight than anyone in history. And if we'd stopped there and flown home, which would have been the eminently sensible thing to do, then my talk would end here and it would end something like this.

08:58

If you have the right team around you, the right tools, the right technology, and if you have enough self-belief and enough determination, then anything is possible.

09:12

But then we turned around, and this is where things get interesting. High on the Antarctic plateau , over 10,000 feet, it's very windy, very 買粉絲ld, very dry, we were exhausted. We'd 買粉絲vered 35 marathons, we were only halfway, and we had a safety 買粉絲, of 買粉絲urse, of ski planes and satellite phones and live, 24-hour tracking bea買粉絲ns that didn't exist for S買粉絲tt, but in hindsight, rather than making our lives easier, the safety 買粉絲 actually allowed us to cut things very fine indeed, to sail very close to our absolute limits as human beings. And it is an exquisite form of torture to exhaust yourself to the point of starvation day after day while dragging a sledge full of food.

10:00

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