Artic Trucks / Thomson Reuters Antarctica Expedition to South Pole 2011

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Thomson Reuters Eikon vehicle - aiming for a new speed record to the South Pole

In December 2011 a three man team will set out in one of our Arctic Trucks built vehicles with the aim of beating the old Guinness World Record set in 2005 going from Patriot Hills to South Pole in under 3 days with an average speed of nearly 16km/h to mark the 100 years anniversary of the first successful attempt by Roald Amundsen.

The vehicle used for this attempt is an AT44 built on Toyota Tacoma with a unique styling by Ian Nisbett Design.

The challenge is to improve the current Guinness World Record, driving from Patriot Hills on the Antarctica coast to the South Pole, over 1100 km distance each way.
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Thomson Reuters team is preparing for their departure to Antarctica on November 30th.
http://thomsonreuterseikon.com/south-pole-expedition/follow-the-journey/

http://www.antarcticachallenge.com/

http://www.arctictrucks.is/

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Probably a good time to plug these guys as well:

http://casandjonesy.com.au/

Two Aussies from Sydney, undertaking an expedition to be the first to walk from the edge of Antartica to the South Pole, and back again, unassisted. Their route is taking them along roughly that same orange line on the map,
 
I was mostly wondering how you ended up working for a company that is based in Iceland. I guess tech support can be done anywhere.
 
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