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The fastest Antarctic crossing ever
The Spanish Transantarctic Expedition of the national TV program ‘Al filo de lo imposible’ has already finished. After having covered 4.500 kilometers in just 63 days the expeditioners have done the fastest Antarctic expedition ever without any help of mechanical means.
On their way, the Transantarctic team has become the first in reaching the most exact coordinates of the South Pole of Inaccessibility, provided by the British Antarctic Survey. They also have beaten the record of the longest Antarctic distance covered in one day , now set in 311 kilometers, and meanwhile have taken several ice samples in the Inaccessibility Zone for scientific research.
The whole expedition has been done with the KiteSled as only vehicle. This sled pulled by huge kites may be the next revolution as polar transport mean: it is ecological, fast and efficient. The expeditioners, Ramón Larramendi, Juan Manuel Viu and Ignacio Oficialdegui, have achieved to make their dreams of exploration and adventure become true.
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| THE ANTARCTIC, THE LAST POLAR CHALLENGE |
- The fastest Antarctic distance ever traveled
The crossing has been the fastest non-motorized Antarctic traverse ever done. Last record was established by Borge Ousland, who covered 2.800 kilometers in 64 days.
- A project of Ramón Larramendi and the Spanish TV Channel, TVE
Ramón Larramendi has been the main promoter of the project. Larramendi, Juanma Viu and Ignacio Oficialdegui, have been the explorers who carried out the crossing, with the support of the Spanish TV program “Al filo de lo imposible” (“At the edge of the impossible”) and his director Sebastián Álvaro.
- The Kitesled, a revolutionary technique
The Skimo tradition and the gliding techniques join in the Kitesled, a sledge pulled by huge kites that has transported a load of about a tone traveling a really long distance across the Antarctic plateau.
- A new kind of scientific expedition
The Kitesled makes possible a new type of scientific expedition, almost non-viable until now. Actually, the team is taking part in an ambitious project of catabatic winds data and ice samples collection in order to analyze their isotopic composition.
- The first polar clean vehicle
The Kitesled, created by Ramón Larramendi, is the first polar vehicle moved absolutely by means of wind power. This expedition has been the opportunity to prove its efficiency in the Antarctic plateau.
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| 13-01-2006
The fastest Antarctic traverse ever done |
| “We made it, it is fabulous. I am on the deck of the Russian vessel, we just landed and I am surrounded of a sea full of icebergs”. Those were the first words we could hear from Ramón Larramendi when they just arrived to the Akademik Federov...
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| 11-01-2006
Lost in the storm |
| 70º 38’ South, 81º 57’ East. Ramón, Juanma and Ignacio could cover 55 kilometers the 8th of January and 80 kilometers the 9th. Last day ended with a fright:
“We had an exhausting day, after twelve hours navigation in the middle of th...
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| 09-01-2006
Much closer to the meeting point |
| 102 kilometers in a difficult day because of the strong wind. As the explorers said, it was “the strongest wind in all the expedition, with a speed of more than 50 kilometers per hour”. It is a tough task to drive the Kitesled in a terrain f...
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| 08-01-2006
Out of the no-wind zone |
| 72º 4' South, 86º 44' East. 280 kilometers first day. 62 the second. 111 the third. Those are the distances covered by our fellows the past 5th, 6th and 7th of January. After two days waiting in the same place for a little bit of wind, a light bree...
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