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World's First Cycle Trip To the South Pole Achieved

Posted by samzenpus on Monday December 30, 2013 @05:13AM from the mountain-bikes-of-madness dept.

Zothecula writes "Shortly before Christmas, we heard about 35 year-old British adventurer Maria Leijerstam's planned attempt to ride to the South Pole on a recumbent fat-tired tricycle. On December 27th at 1am GMT, she achieved that goal, becoming the first person to ever successfully cycle from the edge of the Antarctic continent to the Pole."

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LOL ... by gstoddart · 2013-12-30 05:18 · Score: 4, Funny

Oh, great, now someone will feel the need to do it in a unicycle.

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1. Re:LOL ... by dotancohen · 2013-12-30 05:22 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Actually, even two wheels has not been successfully accomplished yet. Though, to be fair, zero wheels has been done.
  
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Epic South Pole by SecretSquirrel33 · 2013-12-30 05:40 · Score: 4, Informative

In other news, Daniel Burton, a former Word Perfect and Novell software engineer, is currently attempting the first bike ride (two wheels) to the South Pole. You can follow Daniel with live blog updates at http://epicsouthpole.blogspot.com/ Daniel has quite a story switching from programmer to cycling enthusiast http://www.ksl.com/?sid=25470585
Re:Hey Maria, by spike+hay · 2013-12-30 06:32 · Score: 4, Informative

There's daily flights to the pole from McMurdo...
It's only in the winter you can't fly.

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