Antarctic winter crossing a trip 'into the unknown'

Known as a world's biggest vital explorer, Fiennes will skip Monday for a coldest place on Earth.

The courageous adventurer, 68, is a oldest chairman to have climbed Mount Everest and has crossed both frigid ice caps. In 1992-93, he crossed a Antarctic unsupported.

The six-member group will leave Cape Town on Monday in a bid to turn a initial to span Antarctica, a stretch of some-more than 2,000 miles (nearly 4,000 kilometres), in a Southern Hemisphere's winter, that starts in mid-March.

So distant a farthest winter tour in Antarctica was in a early 20th century, covering usually 60 miles.

"We've been doing expeditions for a sum of 40 years. We've damaged a good series of universe records. In Antarctica we've got dual huge

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