The Scott-Amundsen Centenery Race 2011/12
Slog On or Scramble Up?
Amundsen’s route to the Pole crosses the Ross Ice Shelf and then ascends the short, but punishingly steep and dangerous Axel Heiberg glacier. Scott’s route crosses the same shelf but then takes the longer, shallower Beardmore glacier. For both teams, glacier crossings punctuated by hidden crevasses up to a mile deep, will be perilous in the extreme.
Each team will be completely unsupported, and will carry their food and fuel across the ice for seventy days.
The modern race is likely to be very closely-run. If all goes well, both teams will complete their journey in two months - arriving at the South Pole by January 2012.
The race is on!
Expedition facts
- 920 miles
- 70 days food and fuel
- 10,000 feet climb
- 140kg sledges
- 120 miles of glacier
“The Dorset Flapjack Company is very proud to be associated with The Scott-Amundsen Race and the Royal British Legion. We are a family owned business and are all members of the Royal British Legion. We have nearly one hundred and twenty years’ worth of membership of the Royal British Legion and are very proud to be able to add to that support. The Royal British Legion has been a major contributor to community life in our village and is a very deserving organisation. Our bakery is based between the Bovington and Lulworth Army camps and our shop is a regular port of call for many soldiers based here, we are pleased to be able to return the support. We are delighted that Henry and his team will be using our flapjacks to provide the energy needed to combine with their courage and determination to get to the South Pole. We like to support people doing amazing things for good reasons and can think of none better than the Scott-Amundsen Race. This will be inspirational for us and we look forward to following their progress as the expedition goes forward.”
(Source: dorsetflapjacks.com)
