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ABOUT: “Hello Bunny,” said Edmund Hillary, greeting Vivian Fuchs at the South Pole in 1958. “Damn glad to see you Ed,” replied his fellow adventurer. This gruff, manly exchange, evoking the heroic era of ‘Dr-Livingstone-I-presume’ exploration.
Fuchs is best known as the leader of the Commonwealth Trans- Antarctic Expedition, a Commonwealth-sponsored expedition that accomplished the first ever overland crossing of Antarctica. Fuchs led the expedition as founder and first Director of the British Antarctic Survey, a position he held until 1973.
The party departed Shackleton Base on 24th November 1957 and reached Scott Base 100 days later, having travelled 2,158 miles. It was on this expedition that scientists established the thickness of ice at the South Pole and the existence of a land mass beneath. Fuchs is one of the very few explorers to be awarded a Special Gold Medal by the Royal Geographical Society. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1974 and was President of the Royal Geographical Society from 1982 to 1984.
CAUSE: 50% of the profit from this picture will go towards The Last Ice Sentinel. The Last Ice Sentinel is a legacy project to locate and photograph the last fragments of the rarest ice on earth.
DETAILS: Each image is A3 and will be printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art Pearl paper, 285 gsm, which offers a delicately textured surface and fantastic print quality. It will be shipped from the UK.
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