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February 17, 2009
Explorers reach South Pole target
Three men with links to Sir Ernest Shackleton have reached the South Pole.
Lt Col Henry Worsley, from Hereford, Will Gow, from Kent, and Henry Adams, from Suffolk, arrived on Sunday.
The team members, descendents of Shackleton's team or his family, took 66 days to complete the explorer's route, 100 years after he abandoned it.
Speaking from Antarctica, Mr Gow said: "It's been a very long journey, 66 days over 900 miles of pulling our sledges... we're absolutely ecstatic."
Shackleton set out on his Nimrod expedition in October 1908, hoping to become the first person to reach the South Pole.
But icy blizzards and dwindling rations forced him to turn back 97 miles from his goal on 9 January 1909.
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Posted by thdyck on February 17, 2009
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