Photo. Rune
Gjeldnes celebrates his World Record on 9th January 2006 in
his own way. © SEAL Adventure ANS & Rune Gjeldnes:
Extreme Planet - Seal.
This is the latest report from Rune (source: his website: Extreme Planet - Seal). Here you can
hear his voice reports too.
On 9 January 2006, after 68 days and 104 kilometres, Rune kited past the
position 77.27S, 135.50E and took back the world record. Rune is now the world
record holder for the longest unsupported ski-trek in history! In total Rune
kited 104 kilometres this day, and made an early stop to celebrate, after only
four hours of kiting.
Rune has still a long distance to march, but it looks very promising at
the moment to reach his final goal!
Stein Morten Lund, 11. January 2005
Additional information
Ousland skied 2845 kilometres
across Antarctica alone and unsupported in 1996 - 97. At the time, the longest
ski expedition in distance was covered.
The current record is held by Eirik Sønneland and Rolf Bae, who skied 3800
kilometres across Antarctica in 2000 - 2001. One of Runes goals is to break this
record during his expedition! Now his is as mentioned above just few days
ahead.
On his expedition, the Longest March, Rune reached the
Geographical South Pole the 20th December 2005 at 12.46 GMT. At
this time Rune covered 2200 kilometres alone and without resupplies during
his 45 days in Antarctica. This is his first expedition to the South
Pole.
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