As you know, Sebastian completed the Antarctica Legacy Crossing and has just this week returned to Los Angeles. After 81 days, 4100 kilometers and one broken rib, two frostbites and three new polar records!
To sum things up…..On December 27th, 2011 Sebastian and his partner Eric McNair-Landry were the first to reach the Pole of Inaccessibility without assistance or motorized transportation. The POI is an old Russian base station that was abandoned in 1958, and still features a bust of Lenin facing Moscow–the last remnant of a station that has been buried under the ice more than fifty years ! They were one of three groups to have visited the site since then, and the only one to do it un-assisted.On January 8th, They successfully completed the crossing from the POI from the South Pole and were the first to do so un-assisted and without motorized transportation.Finally, on January 23, 2012 Sebastian and Eric arrived at Hercules Inlet, effectively completing the first East-West transcontinental crossing of Antarctica, via two of its poles using only skis and kites, for an adjusted distance of 4100 kilometers.
