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Børge Ousland

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achieved the same feat in that season. These were the first recorded instances of the circumnavigation of the North Pole without an icebreaker. In December 2011 he traversed Antarctica to the South Pole for the centennial celebration of the first expedition to reach the Pole.
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Between 15 November 1996 and 17 January 1997, he became the first in the world to do an unsupported solo crossing of the
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Ousland married at the North Pole in 2012 having been flown in by helicopter with "20 or 30 people".
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became the first explorers ever to reach the North Pole unsupported, after a 58-day ski trek from
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assistance, and also holds the record for the fastest unsupported journey to the
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completed the circumnavigation of the North Pole. A Russian team aboard the
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He started his career as a Norwegian Navy Special Forces Officer with
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In 1994, he made the first solo and unsupported journey to the
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in full Arctic night, successfully concluded on 23 March.
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Borge Ousland and Mike Horn at the Pole: They made it!
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Oslo
Norway
marinejeger
saturation diver
cross Antarctica
Marinejegerkommandoen
North Sea
Erling Kagge
Ellesmere Island
Canada
North Pole
Arctic Cape
Antarctic
Ronne Ice Shelf
Ross Ice Shelf
kite
South Pole
Mike Horn
North Pole
trimaran
"Børge Ousland – Explorer and Adventurer :: Ousland"
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"The problem with Colin O'Brady: His tale of crossing Antarctica was riveting. But how much was fiction?"
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"Guinness World Records - First people to reach the North Pole"
"Opinion | The First Solo Antarctic Traverse"
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