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Everest climber admits to having little experience
Two days after reaching the summit of the 29,028-foot peak, Erling Kagge said via a radiotelephone from a base camp nearly 4 miles up Mount Everest that he had no climbing experience when he set off from Katmandu, Nepal, in March. In 1990, Kagge and Borge Ousland became the first team ever to ski to the North Pole without outside help. Last year, Kagge set another record _ the first to ski alone and unaided to the South Pole. Many people have been to the poles, but always with such outside help as dog sleds and supply deliveries.
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A Norwegian's South Pole Epic, With Chocolate Cake for Dessert
From a fog of swirling ice appeared Erling Kagge of Norway, smiling and waving, the first human to conquer the South Pole alone and unassisted. He arrived the afternoon of Jan. 7, having walked or skied 10 hours a day in minus 15 to minus 35 degrees centigrade (5 to minus 31 Fahrenheit) temperatures for almost 50 days, lugging a heavy sled behind him - having neither shaved nor showered, nor even changed his underwear, since an airplane dropped him at the edge of Antarctica 1,310 kilometers (820 miles) away. Kagge, who turned 30 a week after his latest adventure, is a lawyer for the Norwegian oil company Norsk Hydro. Last July he was negotiating a sale of gas stations when the idea of skiing to the South Pole occurred to him no differently than a round of golf might occur to somebody else. Just like that, he said, he decided to do it. His company agreed to finance the trip at 1.4 million Norwegian kronor ($200,000) - easily the cheapest South Pole expedition ever. On the 50th day Kagge made sight of the South Pole, marked by its half-globe science base. Just then a stormy fog surrounded him. He began skiing more slowly.As he emerged from the fog, the base appeared massive, only two kilometers away.
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Norwegian sets new first at South Pole
OSLO (Reuter) - Norwegian explorer Erling Kagge became the first person to walk alone to the South Pole today after a trek across Antarctica, an expedition spokesperson said.
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Norwegian walks solo to South Pole
(Reuter) - Norwegian explorer Erling Kagge has become the first person to walk alone to the South Pole after an 1,300-kilometre trek across Antarctica, an expedition spokesman said.
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2 Say They Poled To North Pole
UPI / Reuter Photo-Norwegians ([Erling Kagge]) Kagge, left, and (Boerge) Ousland begin their unaided walk to North Pole early in March. \"We received a satellite transmission Sunday saying they made it,\" said Trond Skaare at the team's communication center. The two arrived at the North Pole late Friday or early Saturday, Skaare said. At least 12 previous expeditions failed to reach the earth's northernmost point under similar circumstances. None got closer than 105 miles, the Norwegian news agency NTB said. Ousland, a deep-sea diver, and Kagge, a law student, traveled for 58 days to beat British, South Korean and Soviet teams also racing for the pole, Skaare said in a telephone interview.
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NORWEGIAN LAWYER BECOMES FIRST TO SKI SOLO TO S. POLE WITHOUT HELP
Erling Kagge, 29, traveled for seven weeks in temperatures that fell as low as minus 40 degrees, said his spokesman, Hans Christian Erlandsen. Erlandsen said he did not know when the chartered plane could be at the pole to pick up Kagge. In 1990, Kagge and his partner Borge Ousland beat expeditions from Canada, Britain, South Korea and the Soviet Union in a race to reach the North Pole on skis.
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