Name: TED】レイ・ザハブが南極点までトレッキング (【TED】Ray Zahab treks to the South Pole)
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the bottom of the world, the Geographic South Pole.

And I stood there beside two very good friends of mine,

Together we had just broken the world speed record

We shaved five days off the previous best time.

And in the process, I became the first person in history

Now, many of you are probably saying, "Wait a sec,

dragging a sled, as you just saw in that video clip,

in it everything you need to survive on your Antarctic trek.

It's going to be 40 below, every single day.

And at some point you're going to have to cross these cracks in the ice,

Some of them have a very precarious thin footbridge underneath them

that could give way at a moment's notice,

taking your sled, you, into the abyss, never to be seen again.

The punchline to your journey? Look at the horizon.

because the South Pole is at 10,000 feet,

Our journey did not, in fact, begin at Hercules Inlet,

where frozen ocean meets the land of Antarctica.

It began a little less than two years ago.

had finished a 111-day run across the entire Sahara desert.

the seriousness of the water crisis in Northern Africa.

We also learned that many of the issues facing the people of Northern Africa

I came home to my wife after 111 days of running in the sand,

and I said, "You know, there's no doubt if this bozo can get across the desert,

we are capable of doing anything we set our minds to."

But if I'm going to continue doing these adventures, there has to be

Around that time I met an extraordinary human being,

Peter Thum, who inspired me with his actions.

He's trying to find and solve water issues, the crisis around the world.

His dedication inspired me to come up with this expedition:

I will be able to bring young people, students and teachers from around the world

So we would have a live website, that every single day of the 33 days,

we would be blogging, telling stories of,

you know, depleted ozone forcing us to cover our faces,

frozen ice snowdrifts that could be hip-deep.

I'm telling you, crossing these things with 170-pound sled,

that sled may as well have weighed 1,700 pounds,

We were blogging to this live website daily

to these students that were tracking us as well,

sometimes 20 hours of trekking daily to meet our goal.

We'd catch cat-naps at 40 below on our sled, incidentally.

people from around the world, would ask us questions.

Young people would ask the most amazing questions.

One of my favorite: It's 40 below, you've got to go to the bathroom,

where are you going to go and how are you going to do it?

I'm not going to answer that. But I will answer some of the more popular questions.

Where do you sleep? We slept in a tent that was very low to the ground,

because the winds on Antarctica were so extreme, it would blow anything else away.

What do you eat? One of my favorite dishes on expedition:

butter and bacon. It's about a million calories.

How many batteries do you carry for all the equipment that you have?

Virtually none. All of our equipment, including film equipment,

And do you get along? I certainly hope so,

because at some point or another on this expedition,

one of your teammates is going to have to take a very big needle,

and put it in an infected blister, and drain it for you.

But seriously, seriously, we did get along,

because we had a common goal of wanting to inspire these young people.

They were our teammates! They were inspiring us.

The stories we were hearing got us to the South Pole.

The website worked brilliantly as a two-way street of communication.

Young people in northern Canada, kids in an elementary school,

pretending they were Richard, Ray and Kevin. Amazing.

We arrived at the South Pole. We huddled into that tent,

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