Called "The Coldest Journey", the expedition to lead the first team across the polar continent in winter, Sir Ranulph Fiennes and a team of five people will start off from Novolazareskaya Base in March 2013 in the centenary year of Captain Scott's death in the Antarctic after they became trapped.
The Guinness World Records describes Sir Ranulph Fiennes as the world's greatest living explorer.
Doing to death-defying journey was first contemplated by Sir Ranulph Fiennes 25 years ago, but he dismissed it as "impossible". It's only with recent advances in technology that he relooked the extreme idea. On his way the temperate could plummet to -90oC.
It's incredibly dangerous. Two Caterpillar bulldozers will drag 155 000 litres of fuel and supplies across thousands of kilometres at the dark bottom of the world - completely beyond reach of rescuers.
They will have to survive on their own as they ski in front of the vehicles, trying to reach the other side of the continent at McMurdo Sound in September 2013 over the course of what is planned to be a six month journey.
The expedition will use a South African government-owned ice breaker to transport them to the tip of Antarctica in December - so lets hope Derek Watts of Carte Blanche catch a lift with the team to the edge of Antarctica before the sstart of their journey. It would definitely make for a memorable and must-watch story.
