SHAPE Magazine 1 / 2013 - SCA

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THE COLDEST JOURNEY expedition will,
besides earning a place in the Guinness
World Records, help to gather valuable
data from Antarctica, and the venture will
also raise millions of pounds for charity.
The team is taking supplies of Tork Liquid Soap
and Tork Premium Hand Sanitizer Alcohol Gel
plus dispensers along with 180 rolls of Tork conventional
toilet paper on the six-month trek. The
journey started on March 21, 2013, and will cover
a distance of 2,000 miles. Most of this will be in
complete darkness and at temperatures potentially
as low as –90°C (–130°F).
The main objective of the expedition is to
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West Antarctica
Cold journey
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for Tork
East Antarctica
A team making an attempt to cross Antarctica during
the winter is taking Tork products along with them.
FINISH
The expedition is headed
up by Sir Ranulph Fiennes
and will be subject of a
documentary.
START
This extreme and dark journey
started on March 21 and
will cover a distance of 2,000
miles at temperatures as low
as -90°C.
achieve the fi rst-ever winter crossing of the Antarctic.
A winter crossing of the Arctic was recently
completed by a Norwegian team, which means
that the Antarctic winter crossing is the last major
polar challenge remaining.
A key goal of The Coldest Journey team is to
raise USD10 million for “Seeing is Believing,” a
global initiative to tackle avoidable blindness in
developing countries.
Read more:
www.thecoldestjourney.org/
www.seeingisbelieving.org.uk/
www.tork.co.uk