Eight young people from seven different countries are participating in a journey they will never forget. "Pole to Pole 2000" began at April at the North Pole, with its participants travelling by bicycle, on skis, kayak, and on foot, until they reach the South Pole in ten months. Robin Rupli reports on their journey that mixes high adventure with volunteerism and fostering environmental and humanitarian awareness around the world.
The hardest part so far, concedes the Pole - to - Pole team, has been the North Pole. In April, after six weeks of training, eight young men and women between the ages of 20 and 25, of varying backgrounds and physical abilities, set out to travel the first 750 kilometers skiing across ice in temperatures of minus - thirty - seven degrees celsius. They were stalked by polar bears, and, occasionally, had to climb over ice that had buckled up into ridges ten meters high.
"So, some days the team did a mile and a half (3 kilometers) in eight hours of travel. So it was very stressful, but actually the team at that point were doing amazingly well. They regarded it as huge playground and had a lot of fun with it."
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