[AT] multiple south pole trips

[Jack]

Wide Caterpillar tracks!

https://media.nationalgeographic.org/assets/photos/000/249/24995.jpg

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I remember reading about the original South Pole trip with Edmund Hillary in the Weekly Reader we got though school. There may one or more of the original Fergusons that went to the South Pole in a museum in New Zealand. Massey Ferguson existed by then but they used TE20s with Canadian made (maybe Bombardier) half and full tracks.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/64628002

Once Sputnik happened, life began to change.

Tractor Girl took a Massey Ferguson from the Beauvais France factory all the way south to the tip of South Africa, maybe in 2013.. They intended to take a ferry from South Africa to Antarctica but it had been discontinued. This was covered in Ferguson Furrows. The next year 2014  they flew the same tractor to the Antarctica coast and drive it to the south pole. They did that when it was summer in Antarctica.  

I did not see the reenactment program Spencer saw. I may try to.

http://www.antarcticatwo.com/
http://www.pbs.org/program/hillary/

The wife got to thinking I was way too interested in tractor girl and did not believe my interest was in the tractors.

I mentioned the MF trip to the South Pole because it travelled through Africa.

National Geographic covered a winter Antarctica trip using D7s.

China was using tracked Challengers to move supplies to a south pole base.

Shackleton's experience makes Tractor Girls' trip look like a picnic. I had not realized Shackleton was from County Kildare.

https://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/History/Shackleton-Endurance-Trans-Antarctic_expedition.php

[Spencer Yost] Was this South Pole reenactment for, or at least filmed and used by, the Sir Edmund Hillary TV special? I watched that very recently, and marveled at how life-like the situation and the tractors scenes were.   So your post helps me to understand why the scenes seemed so authentic.

I caught it on Amazon Prime Video, but there was a PBS credit at the very front of every episode. So I guess it originally aired there. It is 6, ~1 hour episodes.  The tractors showed up around episode five. They used a windscreen type cab and roller tracks over the front and rear wheels to pull sleds of supplies for their Antarctic expedition.  Ultimately, they made it to the South Pole with those tractors(If the TV show can be believed. I did not corroborate the fact).

I enjoyed it and think everyone here will.   I think it was simply called “Hillary”.   Covers most of his first 50 years.


[james]  Maybe they copied the Massey Ferguson South Pole reenactment expedition of a couple of years ago. 

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