The coolest road trip you've never heard of
For US$165,000, you get to spend 10 days driving between ice shelves in the South Pole in a temperature of minus 50 deg C
LOOKING for the next great undiscovered drive? What about driving so far south, you actually hit the South Pole?
Come November, you can make it happen in a roughly fortnight-long road trip across Antarctica with The Explorations Company.
Sounds intrepid? That's just the start.
Travellers will have a chance to hike Antarctica's highest mountain, Mt Vinson (almost 5,000 metres high); cross-country ski across the tundra; and locate the point on the Earth where all 24 time zones meet and time loses all conventional meaning.
And if all the stars align, you can even try to break the world record for the fastest Antarctic crossing.
These are all part of two exclusive trips that accommodate no…
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