| Madagascar 2009 Expedition (7/21/2009) |
| Rune Gjeldnes is about to commence on a new adventure. This time crevasses and freezing temperatures has been replaced with white water rapids and a canoe. The objective is to become the first team to canoe down from the upper part of Mananantanana River from a height of 1000 m, down to the main river, Mangoky, and all the way out to the coastline. It is the first of four challenging river expeditions. The ultimate goal is to canoe most challenging river on four islands, and to experience the contrasts between them | 
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| Ten Year Anniversary on top of the world (4/6/2008) |
| Rune Gjeldnes & David Hempleman-Adams is once again on top of the world fighting crevasses and freezing temperatures on their anniversary quest to the North Pole. This time they are also joined by another Hempleman-Adams, David's 15 years old daughter Camilla. If successful she will be the youngest British woman to ski to the North Pole. The 80 mile trek commences out of the Russian ice station Borneo and they are estimated to reach the pole in 10 days, the 14th of April. | 
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| A Great Success! (2/3/2006) |
Arrived Terra Nova at 02.00 CET today!
Rune Gjeldnes - the first person to ski un-supported across both the poles! Across the Arctic Ocean, from Severnaya Zemlya in Russia via the North Pole to Cape Discovery in Canada in the year 2000 and now across the Antarctic continent from Queen Mauds Land via the South Pole to Victoria Land.In addition Rune skied across Greenland lengthways from Cap Farewell to Cap Morris Jessup in 1996. With that, Rune has completed the gruelling explorers Grand Slam - skiing un-supported across the three largest ice caps in the world!
Across Greenland in 1996, 2895 kilometres in 86 days.
Across Arctic Ocean in 2000, 2100 kilometres in 109 days.
Across Antarctica in 2005-2006, 4804 kilometres in 90 days. | 
Rune celebrating the success! |
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| New World Record (1/9/2006) |
| Today at 08.36 CET Rune Gjeldnes kited past the position 77.27S, 135.50E and took back the world record. The Norwegian explorer Rune Gjeldnes is now the world record holder for the longest unsupported ski-trek in history! The previous record were held by the two Norwegian explorers Eirik Sønneland and Rolf Bae from their 3800 kilometres ski expedition across Antarctica in 2000. Gjeldnes still has about 1000 kilometres left on his expedition, and is expected to reach his destination Terra Nova Bay around the 12th of February. | 
Photo: Rune Gjeldnes |
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| The Longest March - update (12/12/2005) |
| The Norwegian explorer Rune Gjeldnes has been in Antarctica for five weeks, and has covered 1.575 of the total 4.600 kilometres. He is at position 84.25S – 12.29E, and has approximately 620 kilometres left to reach the South Pole. This is a major waypoint for Rune, and a pole that he is about to visit for the first time. Rune has been to the North Pole several times, latest in 2000 when he skied across the Arctic Ocean from Russia via the North Pole to Canada, unsupported with his partner Torry Larsen. Rune is looking forward to reach the pole, but most of all leave it behind him, since the pole is only half way to his real goal, a complete crossing of Antarctica, and the longest ski trek ever made. | 
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| The Longest March (8/15/2005) |
| Late October 2005 Rune Gjeldnes will commence on a world record attempt. His main goal is to become the first person in the world to have crossed both the North- and the South Pole, unsupported. During 110 days, 4600 km will be covered on skis without re-supplies. If successful, it will be a world distance record, approximately 800 km longer than the previous skiing expedition record. | 
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| South Pole season (10/24/2004) |
| The season for Antarctic expeditions is here. Seven expeditions are heading for the Antarctic continent this year. Two of the expeditions are aiming for a complete traverse of the continent. This is the 'The Great Antarctic Crossing ' and the 'Malaysian Antarctica Expedition'. The other five are heading for the South Pole. Among these are the American explorer Wave Vidmar, who attempted, but failed an unsupported expedition to the North Pole from Russia earlier this year, and three Australian housewives attempting their first major expedition. The Australian party is planning to reach the South Pole from Hercules inlet. | 
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| Cape 2 Cape challange lift off (7/13/2004) |
| The explorer David Hempleman-.Adams, most known for polar expeditions and mountaineering, lifts off today for a 17 days flying expedition. The goal is to cover the distance between Cape Colombia in northern Canada to Cape Horn in South America in a small 210 Cessna Airplane. The expedition is a few days delayed due to engine trouble, but now the luck seems to have changed. David and his co-pilot arrived at the starting point Cape Columbia yesterday after a flight in from Eureka. | 
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| One explorer rescued, one missing (3/9/2004) |
| A few days ago 5 North Pole expeditions started their journey from the Russian side. A wide led of open water of approximately 50 km forced the explorers to make a difficult choice. Traversing the freezing, deadly water or get a helicopter lift onto the ice and loose the opportunity do a complete North Pole expedition. Wave, Ben and Bettina chose the latter and are safely on their way. Frederic decided to try to ski around the led, but had an accident and fell into the water. He was rescued earlier today. Dominic decided to try to canoe across the led, and is currently missing. No news has been heard from her, neither was she spotted by Frederic's rescue helicopter. | 
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| The roughest expedition area (3/2/2004) |
"Five team is lining up in Khatanga / Siberia waiting for their flight up to Cape Arctichevsky and their attempt to reach their goal, the Geographical North Pole. Normal departure date is in the end of February, but now they are all delayed with some few days, caused by bad weather, plus some others. This happened almost every year, but a late start from Arctichevsky is risky due to the always-changing ice conditions in the area. Strong southerly wind can move the ice a long way out from shore, and the strong currents around the Cape do not make it easier. Anyway, this is what all expeditions are facing every season. The problem is the waiting time and the uncertainties. And the UNCERTAINTIES will follow each of them every minutes, hours, days and weeks when coming out on the moving ice, the roughest expedition area. That’s the Arctic Ocean! I wish them all a safe journey and good luck!
SAFETY FIRST! "Rune Gjeldnes (Photo: Rune Gjeldnes) | 
Photo: Rune Gjeldnes |
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| North Pole season (2/18/2004) |
| The season for Arctic expeditions is here. Most Arctic expeditions to the Geographical Nort Pole starts in February and finishes in April or May. This year three expeditions is heading for the North Pole. For one of the expeditions the Pole is only half way. Ben Saunders is attempting a complete solo and unsupported crossing of the Arctic Ocean, from Russia to Canada. Wave Widmar and Dominick Arduin will all start from Cape Arktichevsky in Russia. The expedition of Widmar is a solo and unsupported attempt, while Arduin is solo and supported (one resupply). | 
Map: Arctic Ocean |
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| Successful crossing of the Pacific with sailboard (11/4/2003) |
The french explorer Raphaela Legouvello has reached Tahiti. The 3d of November Raphaela sailed in the harbor of Papeete after spending 89 days over the Pacific Ocean. The solo sailboard expedition started in in Lima the 5ft of August.
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Photo: Raphaela Legouvello |
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| Succsessful first solo flight across the Atlantic (9/29/2003) |
| David Hempleman-Adams has successfully reached the South West of Ireland in his dramatic balloon crossing of the Atlantic. He is now the first person to have crossed the Atlantic in an open wicker-basket balloon. Hempleman-Adams has already beaten the longest distance flown by a solo British balloonist in his daring bid to be the first to cross the Atlantic ‘Jules Verne Style’ in an open wicker-basket balloon. As of 1400hrs yesterday David had travelled over 3217km. The polar explorer and balloonist has spent over four days alone and without sleep whilst flying the wicker-basketed AM-08 Rozier over the Atlantic and has now just reached the South West of Ireland in his typically determined third effort to make the daring crossing.
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| Sailboard crossing of the Pacific ocean (7/9/2003) |
| After her first crossing of the Atlantic ocean, solo, with a sailboard in 2000, a crossing of the Mediterranean sea in 2002, Raphaela le Gouvello will leave on August 5, 2003 from Lima to Tahiti (4,300 nautical miles) for a duration of about 3 months, on the track of the mythical journey of Thor Hejerdahl with his famous Kon Tiki. | 
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| Attempt for first solo flight across the Atlantic (7/1/2003) |
| Explorer and balloonist David Hempleman-Adams will be attempting the first solo flight across the Atlantic ocean in an open basket, under a Roziere balloon. The ocean has never been flown solo, in an open basket, under a Roziere balloon. Without the protection of an enclosed capsule, David will be exposed to all the hardships of Atlantic weather, including lasting rain, strong winds and often-freezing conditions at higher altitude. Up draughts could hurl the balloon above life-sustaining height and down draughts could send it plummeting into raging and unforgiving seas, with mountain wave crests.
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| Solo and unassisted dive at the North Pole (4/22/2003) |
| The Australian diver and explorer Marcus Fillinger of Canberra, Australia became the first person to dive solo and unassisted at the Geographic North Pole. Fillinger left Australia on 11 April on an expedition to become the first to dive solo and unassisted under the ice at the Geographic North Pole. Using Russian ice base "Borneo" as his launching point, Marcus was airlifted to 89 degrees, from here he dragged a pulk (Kevlar sled) with his gear weighing over 110kg to a suitable dive site at the Pole. The 19th of April 2003 he performed the dive at the North Pole as the first diver ever. Later the same day he was picked up by Russians and taken back to the polar station Borneo.
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| First Unsupported to Geomagnetic North Pole (4/7/2003) |
| April 7, 2003 - David Hempleman-Adams has announced that he succeeded in reaching the Geomagnetic North Pole yesterday at 15.10hrs local time (7 hours behind GMT). Starting at 0700hrs David completed the final challenging ten miles over the icy terrain, his leg badly bruised after a 20 foot fall from a glacier last week. The veteran explorer was ecstatic at having achieved the feat. He is now the first person to have walked solo and unsupported to the Geomagnetic North Pole | 
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| North Pole Solo Ice Dive Expedition (3/12/2003) |
| On April 12, 2003 Marcus Fillinger will be embarking on a world first solo unassisted dive of the Geographic North Pole. He will be leaving from ice base "Borneo" by helicopter on approximately April 15. From there he will be heading out with pulk, containing two dive tanks, dive gear, and camera gear to complete a documentary as well as record the solo unassisted dive of the north pole. He plan to be out on the ice for approximately 8-10 days / weather dependant. Ice depth and or the availability of open leads will determine where to dive. A helicopter will be used to find the direction to open water near the pole. | 
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| French explorer rescued (12/3/2002) |
| A Russian rescue team rescued the explorer Gilles Elkaim today. Elkaim attempted to cross the Arctic form North Cape to the Bering Strait. He planned spend three years on foot, by kayak, on skis, by reindeer and dog driven sleds, to complete the journey, but had to abort as he got isolated on an ice floe surrounded by water. | 
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| The Atlantic Quest - a success! (11/15/2002) |
| Congratulations! Stein Hoff is the first man to ever row across the Atlantic, mainland to mainland. The Norwegian explorer has rowed from Lisboa, Portugal across the Atlantic Ocean, to Georgetown, Guiana. During the last 24 hours Hoff rowed for 20 hours to reach his goal. In total Hoff has spent 97 days rowing the 6994 Kms across the Atlantic. | 
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| Across Canada Expedition (11/15/2002) |
| Congratulations! Lars Monsen has successfully completed the Across Canada Expedition. For almost 3 years, 947 days, Monsen has fought his way from Alaska to the east coast of Canada with his 8 dogs. This is probably the first complete crossing of Canada by foot and dog-sledge. | 
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| Rune Gjeldnes is planning a new adventure (11/14/2002) |
| The famous Norwegian explorer Rune Gjeldnes is planning a new adventure. Gjeldnes is most known for his unsupported crossing of Greenland from the south to the north, and the unsupported crossing of the Artic Ocean from Russia to Canada. He is very secretive about the new project, but he reveals that the new adventure definately is a cold weather project. Looking back on his two most famous expeditions, that no-one ever has managed to copy, we can only assume he is talking about a new unbreakable record. | 
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| The Quest is comming to an end (11/13/2002) |
| The Norwegian explorer Steinar Hoff has spent 94 days crossing the Atlantic Ocean, and has less than 150 Km left before he reaches the coast of Georgetown, Guiana. He has rowed about 6450 Km after he left Lisboa, and are expected to reach his goal within a day or two. | 
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| Mike Horn has reached Canada (11/6/2002) |
| On the 30th of September, Mike moored his boat at Nanisivik, a small mining village off the northern coast of Baffin Island. He had reached the point of no return - behind him the ice was closing up. From Nanisivik, he could now head off on foot, while the boat, ARKTOS, would remain there for the winter. With 5’000 kms of the 20’000 behind him, Mike is now ready for stage 4 of the ARKTOS expedition. This involves the traverse on foot and ski of the North-Western Territories of Canada, heading westwards towards the Bering Strait in Alaska.
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| New record accross Greenland (9/1/2002) |
| The three norwegian explorers Trond Hilde, Ivar Tollefsen and Odd Harald Hauge lowered the existing "world" record across Greenland. The team spent 8 days and 11 hours to ski the distance of 600 kilometres. | 
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| First solo round the world ballon flight (7/3/2002) |
| Steve Fossett has officially circumnavigated the globe in Bud Light Spirit of Freedom. Fossett crossed 117 degrees East longitude at approximately 8:40 a.m. (CDT), making him the first person to ever successfully circle the globe in a balloon alone. | 
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| Great Lakes adventure comes to an end (6/27/2002) |
| Ann and Liv have traveled down the St. Lawrence River to the Kanienkahaka Territory of Akwesasne, just across the river from Cornwall, Ontario. Today they will release into the St. Lawrence Seaway carved wooden figures representing the dreams shared with them during their adventure. | 
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| Steve Fossett launched 6th Round the World Attempt (6/20/2002) |
| Steve Fossett lifted off in his balloon, Bud Light Spirit of Freedom, in a beautiful morning launch from Northam, Western Australia, for his sixth attempt to fly solo around the world. After a delay of six hours due to light winds blowing in the wrong direction, the balloon finally left the ground at 9:37 A.M. Australia time. http://www.spiritoffreedom.com | 
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| Successful summit! (11/1/2001) |
| The Norwegian expedition summited ChoOyo 1st of November 2001. The originality of the expedition was not that they reached the summit, but that they actually skied back down again. | 
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| Historic first! (9/28/2001) |
| The Devils Cave expedition has succeeded what all previous expeditions have failed. The expedition reached and descended the Devils cave on the Sarisarinama tepui. Thou much harder than expected, the bottom of the cave was reached at the 5th of September 2001. | 
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| Ousland reached North Pole (4/23/2001) |
| Børge Ousland reached the North Pole today - again. This is his second, successful expedition to the North Pole , but for him this is just the start. He has about 750 km left to complete his dream; a complete crossing of the Arctic Ocean, from Russia to Canada. | 
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| Longest ski trek in history (2/5/2001) |
| The Norwegian explorers Rolf Bae and Eirik Sønneland have successfully skied across Antarctica. The 3500 km expedition started the 20th of October last year, and today 105 days later they reached their goal. The ski trek started at the Troll base, where the two explorers also spent the winter, and continued via the South Pole to the McMurdo base. | 
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| Danish South Pole Expedition has reached the pole (1/13/2001) |
| The first Danish expedition ever to ski to the South Pole reached their goal early in the morning on January the 13th. Kristian Joos (37) and Gregers Gjersoe (43) thereby managed to walk the distance of 1200 km from Hercules Inlet to the pole in 55 days. | 
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| Norwegian success! (6/4/2000) |
| As the first expedition ever, Rune Gjeldnes and Torry Larsen finally reached Cape Discovery. The Norwegian expedition used 109 days to cover the 1741 km trek from Russia via the North Pole to Canada. The team was picked up today, and will be flown back to Ottawa. | 
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| Britannic Challenge (6/1/2000) |
| David Hempleman-Adams, the solo pilot of the Britannic Challenge balloon, has become the first person to reach the North Pole by balloon. He reached the North Pole plateau at 3.00am this morning and by mid-afternoon he actually managed to maneuver the Britannic Challenge balloon to the North Pole itself. The British adventurer has beaten the odds during what has been described by Britannic Challenge Flight Director and Breitling Orbiter 3 pilot Brian Jones as the "the last great aeronautical challenge in the world". | 
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| Arctic Ocean 2000 expedition in trouble (5/13/2000) |
| The two Norwegian explorer Rune Gjeldnes & Torry Larsen are running out of time. They have met rougher ice conditions than expected and a fuel leak has spoiled 15 days of food. The sledges are left behind together with a lot of equipment in order to make a last attempt to reach Ward Hunt Island. | 
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| First across Greenland in the new millenium (3/27/2000) |
| The two brothers Kenneth and Bjørn Loe has started the attempt to be the first unsupported team to ski across Grenland in the new millenium. The expedition started the 27th of March in Søndre Strømfjord and is estimated to end in Isortoq in 28 days. The journey is approximately 720 km long. | 
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| Iridium problem sorted out (3/18/2000) |
| A lot of work has been done to keep the Iridium satellite system up and running. Yesterday the bankruptsy court in USA decided that the Iridium satellites should continue to transmit in remote areas. This includes the Arctic Ocean where seven expedition depend on this satellites to communicate to the outside world. | 
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| Iridium is bankrupt (3/16/2000) |
| The Iridium satellite communication system is bankrupt. Several expeditions are using this system as their main form of communication. The major owner of Iridium, Motorola, has not managed to find new investors for the project, and this results in an immediate shutdown of the satellite system at 17th of March, this year. | 
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| Arctic Ocean 2000 (3/14/2000) |
| The Norwegian Arctic Ocean expedition has passed the 83 degree latitude. Yesterday the expedition spent a day resting, and during the day, they drifted 4,3 km. Both expedition members are in good condition, and the progress is according to schedule. | 
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| It is over for Bettina Aller (3/7/2000) |
| Yesterday Bettina injured her knee on her unsupported the North Pole expedition . She tried to continue today, but the injury stopped her. After 10 days and 79,12 km she sent a request for a non emergency pickup. | 
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| Arctic Ocean (3/1/2000) |
| Two teams are fighting to be the first to complete an un-supported crossing of the Arctic Ocean. The Norwegian team has reached the 82 degree latitude and the French team are a few miles behind. The French team has lighter sledges than the Norwegians, so it is expected that they will close in on the gap. | 
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| Nordpolen2000 (2/28/2000) |
| The Swedish explorers Göran Kropp and Ola Skinnarmo have started their North Pole 2000 expedition. Their goal is to be the first Swedes to reach the Pole without any assistance. | 
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| Sir Ranulph evacuated (2/25/2000) |
| Sir Ranulph Fiennes has been evacuated from the Arctic Ocean. He had to abandon his quest for the north pole, as his 250 kg sledge went trough the ice. | 
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| Alan Bywaters North Pole Adventure Canceled (2/24/2000) |
| Alan Bywater has broken his leg in training, and has given up his attempt to reach the North Pole this winter. | 
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| The last challenge (2/24/2000) |
| Rune Gjeldnes and Torry Larsen have started their Arctic Ocean 2000 expedition. The expedition will attempt to Canada from Russia via the North Pole without any outside help. They estimate to reach Canada after the 1731 km long trek in mid June 2000. | 
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