South Pole Trek
What − Is Dennis raising money for?
What − Is he doing?
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In 2008 Dennis took on one of his biggest challenges to date trekking to the North Pole for 17 days on the frozen sea ice of the Arctic Ocean with a team of 7 men and women. Dennis decided in this celebration year of both Scott and Amundsen arriving at the South Pole 100 years ago to travel for 60 days covering approximately 750 miles pulling a pulk (sledge) to be at the South Pole at around the same time Scott would have been there in his I’ll fated 1911/12 expedition. Trying to replicate the effort required to complete this mission Dennis has been intensively training physically and mentally to achieve this goal. Making his way to the South Pole with 3 other independent individuals with similar aims and ambitions as Dennis, he is keen to use this opportunity to raise money for various Charities.Dennis will leave the UK in early November 2011.
After some local training and kit inspections he will leave with his team from Punta Arenas flying across the dangerous and stormy Drake Passage arriving at Patriot Hills ice station in Antarctica some 4 hours later. After a few days of acclimatising the teams then fly to Hercules Inlet on the edge of the Antarctic Continent. Dennis’ team will start their celebration trek from this location at sea level. 750 miles later and at approximate 9,500 ft they will arrive at the Amundsen Scott Station at the South Pole to join in the International celebrations to recognise the feat of those exceptional pioneers who managed to not only get to the South Pole but in Amundsen case return safely and sadly in the case of Scott and his brave team perish on the way back.
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