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Unknown_Sniper · 01-24-2006, 05:21 PM

ok how about this.
Drive 700 miles in 3 days(non stop comes out to be about 10mph) over terrain so harsh it will kill you in under and hour if you are not dressed properly. If you are dressed properly it will probably take 24 hours to kill you. There is NO help following them. If they had got stuck and unable to get out of the predicament they would have been fucked. In 700 miles they went from 0ft elevation(sea level) to 9,306 feet(the height of the station at the south pole).
Look in the back ground behind the van. How far and what do you see? Ill answer for you, you see nothing, and you see it as far as maybe a mile. They were driving by gps the entire way(cant follow a compass becuase there are mountains), and the driver had to be on the lookout for any crags or obstructions.
[img]http://www.rockstomper.com/images/chad/icelanders/P1010004.jpg[/img]
Then there is the airing down of their tires. If youve ever driven in deep snow you might know that the lower your tire air pressure is the better floatation you have on the snow. They had to constantly get out and air down, or air up depending on the snow. This did get them stuck several times.
If anyone wants to tell me this is not a monumental achievement then I will have lost even more respect for their oppinions.

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Unknown_Sniper is Offline Captain Posts: 5,724 Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Mostly Vermont. Also New Hampshire	01-24-2006, 05:21 PM ok how about this. Drive 700 miles in 3 days(non stop comes out to be about 10mph) over terrain so harsh it will kill you in under and hour if you are not dressed properly. If you are dressed properly it will probably take 24 hours to kill you. There is NO help following them. If they had got stuck and unable to get out of the predicament they would have been fucked. In 700 miles they went from 0ft elevation(sea level) to 9,306 feet(the height of the station at the south pole). Look in the back ground behind the van. How far and what do you see? Ill answer for you, you see nothing, and you see it as far as maybe a mile. They were driving by gps the entire way(cant follow a compass becuase there are mountains), and the driver had to be on the lookout for any crags or obstructions. [img]http://www.rockstomper.com/images/chad/icelanders/P1010004.jpg[/img] Then there is the airing down of their tires. If youve ever driven in deep snow you might know that the lower your tire air pressure is the better floatation you have on the snow. They had to constantly get out and air down, or air up depending on the snow. This did get them stuck several times. If anyone wants to tell me this is not a monumental achievement then I will have lost even more respect for their oppinions.