North Pole breaking news: Avery and team make Arctic history!
Apr 27, 2005 18: 59 EST
With an 18.8 mile sprint on the last day, the Ultimate North team broke Peary’s 1909 speed record to the North Pole. The new record for the fastest North Pole expedition is 36 days, 22 hours and 11 minutes. When they finally reached the top of the world yesterday, they were 7 miles ahead of Peary’s pace. As promised, here’s Tom Avery’s full dispatch recounting Ultimate North’s historic final push to the Pole (over Contact 3.0 straight from the Pole).
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