- South Pole - Windswept dream

SOUTH POLE – WINDSWEPT DREAM

Two men put their determination and stamina to the test during 44 days of icy temperatures, freezing winds and physical exhaustion. As the first Finnish expedition to the South Pole, they skied unsupported and unassisted more than 1000 kilometres to the South Pole, their courage challenged every day. They had to believe in success.

A century ago, the Amundsen and Scott expeditions fought their way through the white desert. Now, a century later, the same stormy goal still draws explorers.

Reaching the South Pole, Kari Poppis Suomela joined the elite of polar explorers. Before him, only eleven others have skied to both the North and the South Pole without outside support.

192 pages, 150 color pictures, hard cover size: 230mm x 275mm

English edition.

KARI POPPIS SUOMELA (born 1966) A polar explorer, photographer, graphic designer and outdoor journalist who has explored the planet at one challenging location after another. Poppis is especially interested in arctic conditions. He is the only Finn to have skied unsupported and unassisted to both the North and the South Pole. For the past twenty years, Poppis has been an entrepreneur, publishing books and organising photographic exhibitions of his treks. For the past ten years he has been responsible for the equipments tests of the Retki magazine as a reporter and test manager. Poppis holds an MA in industrial design and an M.Sc. in engineering. www.poppicok.fi www.thepole.fi