To the Ends of the Earth: The Transglobe Expedition, the First Pole-to-pole Circumnavigation of the GlobeAccount of the Transglobe Expedition, 1979-1982, led by Ranulph Fiennes. This was the first expedition to circumnavigate the earth via both poles. |
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