Roger Mear and Gareth Wood pitch their tent on the polar plateau. The team managed to reach the South Pole within 70 days, which was five days earlier than their most optimistic predictions. It took them eight days to cross the Beardmore Glacier at an average of about 28km a day, and 38 days to cross the ice barrier at an average of about 17km a day.
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67Roger Mear and Gareth Wood pitch their tent on the polar plateau. The team managed to reach the South Pole within 70 days, which was five days earlier than their most optimistic predictions. It took them eight days to cross the Beardmore Glacier at an average of about 28km a day, and 38 days to cross the ice barrier at an average of about 17km a day. Press, 17 January 1986, Page 9
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