Title:MAP UPDATE DAY 51
Duration: 1:26 minutes
Description:
Robert Swan reporting on day 51of the South Pole Energy Challenge, Antarctica.
MAP UPDATE DAY 51 TRANSCRIPT
Message from Robert Swan
[Robert Swan]
This is Robert Swan reporting. Some wonderful news from the South Pole Energy Challenge. Exactly 32 years ago, Roger Mear, Gareth Wood and myself were closing in.
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Close-up of Robert Swan wearing ski gear, seen against an out-of-focus white background, snow falling gently in the foreground.
[Robert Swan]
We were literally 20 hours away from the South Pole, coming in on January 11th, 1986. And here we are, 32 years later, on the Polar Plateau. And at last, after a huge effort, our teams are now one.
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[Robert Swan]
So the Last Degree team and the South Pole Energy Challenge team have met up. We’re just over 35 miles, I think, from the South Geographic Pole itself.
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[Robert Swan]
And we’ll march in all together as one team. I was so proud at seeing Barney, and I can’t tell you what it meant for me to see them, after hauling 570 miles on foot on the edge of the Antarctic. This has been one of the most special days of my life.
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Close-up of Robert Swan wearing ski gear, seen against an out-of-focus white background, snow falling gently in the foreground. Mid-view still of a smiling Robert and Barney, arms around each other as they pose for the shot against a snow-covered background.
[Robert Swan]
And we’re all together here, and we’re so privileged to be high up in the middle of the only place in the world that all of us own, the Antarctic, and we need to keep it so.
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[Robert Swan]
So this is a very happy Rob Swan, speaking from a united – at last – South Pole Energy Challenge team. Message Ends.
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