KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 24 (Bernama) -- Gamania Cheer Up Foundation has launched ‘An Expedition In Antarctica’ after the completion of the inspiring ‘Polar Challenge’ 10 years ago, to encourage young people to have big dreams.
The first expedition team to Antarctica in Taiwan’s history aims to reach the South Pole via cross-country skiing under an extreme environment of 50 degrees Celsius to below zero with a wind speed of 50 kilometres (km) per hour, paying tribute to the spirit of adventure.
But, in view of various factors such as food supply and weather, they had decided to compress the total number of days of the march to 20 days and abandoned the original 660 km ‘Coast to Pole Route’.
Instead, they switched to the shorter but more challenging ‘Antarctic Plateau Route’, which is about 350 km.
Since the official challenge began on Dec 6, 250 km were covered after 15 days. The team has crossed the 89 degrees south of the equator mark and entering the last 100 km.
The team is led by the foundation’s founder, Albert Liu where ultra-marathon runner, Tommy Chen and famous actor Chris Wang serve as coach and mentor.
The international and interdisciplinary team includes 20-year-old Big Dream Youth Sherry Lin and Gary Wu, while director of the documentary film “Beyond the Arctic” 10 years ago, Yang Li-chou also participates to document the feat in full.
-- BERNAMA
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