Bob Wilson
South Pole Expedition
Fundraising for Headway Oxfordshire
Story
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric; punctuation-wrap: simple;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Team reached the South Pole on 8th December. Our ski journey to the Pole from an equivalent Latitude where Sir Ernest Shackleton had to turn back just 97 1/2 miles short of his goal in 1909 has been a most amazing experience.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric; punctuation-wrap: simple;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">It is impossible to explain how it was but I have been very privileged to have been with David Hempleman-Adams and Rune Geldnes who have the ability of encouraging people to do things they would never do.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric; punctuation-wrap: simple;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">"No person who has spent a period of his life in those stark sullen latitudes that sentinel the Pole will understand fully what trees flowers and running streams mean to the Soul of Man"</span></p>
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