A 40-year-old Japanese adventurer will embark on an unassisted solo trek in mid-November journeying approximately 1,130 km across Antarctica to the South Pole.
If successful, Yasunaga Ogita will become the first Japanese to accomplish such a feat. He plans to pull a 100-kg sleigh loaded with a tent, food and fuel and reach the goal in about two months.
"I want to experience the excitement of seeing an unknown world," said Ogita, who previously made two attempts at unassisted treks to the North Pole since 2012, but had been unsuccessful due to obstacles such as huge crevasses.