Lewis Clarke, 16 years old
became the youngest person to trek to the South Pole on 18 January 2014.Clarke
spent 48 days at temperature of -40 Celsius and winds of up to 193 km/h. Clarke
from Bristol, UK aimed to enter the record books as the youngest person in the
world to ski from the Antarctic coast to the Pole using 1100 kilometer Hercules
Inlet route.
An 18 year old Sarah Mc Nair
Landry from Canada previously held the same coast to pole route in 2005. The
British Antarctic Survey said that the Antarctic is the highest and coldest
continent and is nearly as big as Europe in size which is entirely buried by
snow and ice.
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