canuck - 20-12-2014 at 07:21 PM
Congrats to Fredrick Dion, the first person to reach the centre of Antarctica alone. CTV Montreal report
CBC Montreal report
skimtwashington - 20-12-2014 at 07:58 PM
This news source completely leaves out the fact he was using a kite in it's text..... but if you listen to included audio you learn
more..that he was using a kite.
(Click on 'LISTEN' below picture.)
Would be interesting to know not about the kite, as much as the clothing and methods of insulating himself from the severe cold. Here it becomes more
than about the kite, I think, but about survival.
He did get frostbite. But it obviously wasn't bad enough to stop him. If worse.... it could have snowballed into a needed rescue attempt from
outside....or tragedy.
He is to be respected for a courageous effort.
I would say this is certainly a milestone in adventure kiting...and fairly noteworthy in the annals of world adventure in general-perhaps.