[...] Stoup has already made several trips to the South Pole. Last year he was one of three marathon runners to run 26 miles to the pole after being dropped off by helicopter.
He's one of about 100 people who have skied across Antarctica from the coast to the pole. He's climbed the continent's highest peak, and snowboarded down another of them, a feat captured by filmmaker Warren Miller's latest extreme sports movie, Storm, now playing in movie theaters.
"I've done some stuff down here," he said. "So I'm not just a crazy lunatic."
bicycling to the south pole
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Warren Miller is the man
This is the kind of guy I'd like to go on a date with... at the south pole. Purr.... I wonder if he'd admire my cankles. What do you think?
This is interesting... he's legally required to haul his own port-a-potty:
I wonder who exactly makes those laws, and how are they enforced? Is the Antarctica county sheriff going to drive by in the chopper and pull you over for littering? Is there some UN agency that spends its time poring over reams of satellite photos looking for little yellow spots amidst the pristine white?
You don't really want to leave waste lying around in Antartica... it wouldn't decompose, so... yes... enough said. :)
The Antarctic Treaty
I know all about this because I just read ``Antarctica'' by Kim Stanley Robinson, which has some interesting trivia but is otherwise not very good.
Much is also made of the Antarctic Treaty in Robinson's ``Red Mars'' which I'm also halfway though reading even though I really hate it. I haven't given up on it yet only because I find that some nights, this book is the only thing that can make me fall asleep. It's so boring, it's like reading hundreds of pages of product labels.
....Just a redundant lunatic.