Amazing, yet gutted she didn’t make it to the end.
Does anyone know what the time limit was for? Was it just the time the Army had given her off. You would think they might have extended it for a couple of days.
Interesting to see they refer to a small towed sled as a "pulk". That makes it only the second Finnish loan word that I know of (after sauna) to make it into English (the Finnish word is "pulkka")
An amazing bit of endurance, even if I am rather sniffy about using the Antarctic as a playground.
In bushcrafting circles, the pukko style of knife is popular and well known, thanks to our popular bushcrafting tv personality.
Always keep a puukko in your pulkka, I always say.
Capt Chandi, 33, exceeded the previous world record of 907 miles (1,459.8km), set by Henry Worsley, a retired Lieutenant Colonel, in 2015.
He was picked up from the ice 126 miles (202km) short of completing a crossing of Antarctica and, following illness, lost his life in hospital in Chile.