Sir Ranulph Fiennes to undertake record winter Antarctica expedition

PanARMENIAN.Net - British explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes is to lead the first team on foot across Antarctica during the southern winter, BBC News reported.

The six-month expedition next year is being called the Coldest Journey, crossing terrain where the temperature has hit -90C. It will be 68-year-old Sir Ranulph's latest record attempt. Past feats have seen him go pole to pole and climb Everest as a pensioner.

Guinness World Records describes him as the world's greatest living explorer.

"We do it because we like to break world records," says Sir Ranulph, his bushy eyebrows icing up while on a training session close to the Arctic. "Sometimes we don't succeed, but it's what we go for. It's our specialty."

The team will be dropped off by ship on the Pacific coast of the continent and wait for the equinox on 21 March 2013 before setting off over the ice shelf.