Hvitserk arranges the first commercial ”charter tour” to the South Pole

Photo. South Pole (from Hvitserk`s website www.Hvitserk.no).

Hvitserk is specialised on polar expeditions, climbing and trekking on high mountains around the world. Hvitserk has already guided Norwegians and travellers from other countries on adventurous expeditions to several exotic areas around the world. This great adventurous journey will be arranged in November - December next year.

According to information on Hvitserk`s website (www.Hvitserk.no), based on their background it was natural for them to invite to an expedition to the South Pole. Their aim is to organise a group who goes in to the Pole point (ca. 750 kilometres), and eventually set up a group who is interested in ski sailing out from the South Pole (ca. 1,000 kilometres). The distance is of course dependent of the route they choose, so it could be longer, just to let you know!

Optimal preparations are necessary. The tour to the polar point is with pulkas. Participants can expect long, cold days, moving up to 30 kilometres in an average per day, but the feeling of reaching 90 degrees South is not so far away as the famous Norwegian Polarer Roald Amundsen most has felt. As the first person there, he raised the flag on 90 south the 14 December in 1911.

Photo. Having a good time on the South Pole (from Hvitserk`s website www.Hvitserk.no). People on tours like this have to be well motivated and willing to take their part of the efforts, and to work in a team.

According to one of the founders of Hvitserk, Lars Ebbesen, does not Hvitserk intend to take with them "supermen" on this tour, but persons who are well motivated and willing to take their part of the efforts, and to work in a team. This is necessary because of hard psychical efforts in the polar areas for two months.

The participations will be transported by airplane from Norway to Punta Arenas in Chile and so in to Patriot Hills in Antarctica . So the group has to stay on its own. Each participant has to drag pulkas with necessary equipment and food.

The expedition member should expect temperature down to 40 degrees below zero. Combined with ice cold wind, the temperature could in fact be as low as 70 degrees below zero. The encouragement is that they will ski and sleep in the eternal sun under Antarctic short summer from November to February.

The interest is so high for the tour that Hvitserk probably arrange two tours, but the time will show. So for they who have the time, money and guts, you have to start exercising and preparations for your tour already now.

Stein Morten Lund, 21 October 2004

Additonal information

Read more about Hvitserk`s tour offer to the South Pole on: Tour South Pole

Presentation of Hvitserk:

Hvitserk is Norwegian well-known tour operator and guiding company, specialised on polar expeditions, climbing and trekking tours around the world.

Over years the professional guides in Hvitserk have guided Norwegians, Swedes, Danes, Brits, Dutch, Swiss, German, Austrians, Canadians, Americans, etc, on unique adventure tours, especially in Greenland.

In Norway Hvitserk offers tours to Stetind in Nordland and Lofoten, for climbing high peaks, and to the arctic wilderness in Svalbard, where you can encounter polar bears and experience the unique nature.

For more information about their adventure tours, click on the link www.Hvitserk.no

Information meeting in Oslo, 14 December 2004:

Tirsdag 14. desember kl 18.00.

Til SYDPOLEN med ski og pulk - avreise i slutten av oktober 2005. Til dette møtet ønsker Hvitserk at ankomst meldes i forkant. Ring Hviserk eller send en e-post hvis du er seriøst interessert og kommer på møtet.

Info-møtet varer ca. 1 time, og det vil bli vist flotte LYSBILDER, presentasjon av turopplegget og anledning til å stille spørsmål.

FRI ENTRÉ.

Sted:

I butikken til SPORTSNETT , Parkveien 19, Oslo (i lokalene til det gamle vinmonopolet, på skrå over gaten litt innenfor Lorry´s).

1 min gange fra nederst i Hegdehaugsveien, retning Bislet.

Hvitserk as

Ullern Allé 41

0381 Oslo

NORWAY

Telefon: + 47 - 24 12 62 30

Fax: + 47 - 24 12 62 31

E-post: post@hviterserk.no

Webside: www.Hvitserk.no