A relative of the great Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton has reached the South Pole.
Will Gow, 35, a city worker from Ashford arrived at the bottom of the world at 3.30am GMT on Sunday.
He was joined by his companions Henry Worsley and Henry Adams. The three men have achieved a feat their famous ancestor never managed.
They spent 66 days dragging their sleds 919 miles to reach the pole unaided.
All three men have family connections to members of Shackleton’s team who had to turn back 97 miles short of the South Pole in 1909.
The temperature was -33 degrees centigrade at the pole.
The Matrix Shackleton Centenary Expedition took five years to plan and has so far raised £450,000 to fund a new foundation aimed at carrying out scientific research in the arctic circles.
Before leaving for the Pole, Henry Worsley gave a talk to children at Spring Grove School in Wye.
POSTED: 19/01/2009 16:53:21
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