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Rune Gjeldnes (born May 20, 1971 in Nachbaradal ) is a Norwegian adventurer and polar explorer .

Life

The elite soldier completed his military training in 1992. In the same year he met Torry Larsen , who also comes from the province of Møre og Romsdal .

In 1994 they undertook the Umanaq Isortoq expedition in Greenland . Between March 19 and June 12, 1996, both managed to cross Greenland lengthways. They covered 2,895 kilometers in 86 days without air support.

A year later, Gjeldnes began planning the Arctic Ocean 2000 expedition. Previously, he reached in May 1998 along with David Hempleman-Adams with The Prince's Trust North Pole expedition to the North Pole after a first failed attempt 1997th

In 2000 he and Torry Larsen were the first to cross the Arctic Ocean without the support of Severnaya Zemlya via the North Pole to Canada , covering 2,100 kilometers in 109 days. It took two years to develop the special sled for this expedition.

In 2001 he went on a paddle tour through Venezuela .

From November 2005 to February 2006, Rune Gjeldnes crossed the Antarctic alone and without assistance . The route started from Queen Maud Land , crossed the South Pole and ended in Victoria Land . Thus, Rune Gjeldnes is the first in the world to cross the Antarctic alone via the South Pole. (Already in 1989/1990 Arved Fuchs crossed the Antarctic together with Reinhold Messner on foot over the South Pole, running distance at that time 2800 kilometers.) Rune Gjeldnes needed only 90 days for the total distance of 4804 kilometers. In doing so, he completed the longest toboggan trip that a person has ever undertaken and beat the old world record of 3800 kilometers by more than 1000 kilometers.

In the first days of his expedition he had to conquer more than 3000 meters in altitude to get to the central high plateau of the Antarctic. He was skiing and pulling a baggage sledge behind him. On the eighth day of his expedition he was able to use a towing kite for the first time , with the help of which he could move at speeds of up to 30 km / h. Thus, despite Sastrugis , he even managed 211 kilometers on the 76th day of his journey.

Works

• Dead men walking (Arctic Ocean 2000)
• Beyond the poles (The longest March)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Diary of the record Antarctic crossing 2005–2006 ( memento of the original from January 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Web links

• Web site rune gjeldnes (English)