Doug is honored to be intiated as international polar guide by the newly formed International Polar Guide Association. The International Polar Guides Association is the premier body for the development and preservation of world-class professional guiding in polar ice environments. The International Polar Guide Association regulates the quality of polar guiding through its guide endorsement … Continued
The members of Team Two and a Half Men, all met each other at the 2007 150-mile stage race, the Gobi March. Most people would be thrilled to get in one of these trips during a lifetime, but these guys make a habit of it, and believe that life is for living now, and not … Continued
The Squaw Valley Institute is set to hold a Welcome Home Event for the South Pole Push Expedition tomorrow, January 31st. The Tahoe-based team, led by adaptive athlete Grant Korgan made history on January 17th with the very first team of adaptive athletes trekking to the South Pole. The event begins on Tuesday, January 31st … Continued
This past summer, with Stoup, the world’s most traveled polar explorer, and Fletcher, a world-class helicopter ski guide, plans for an expedition to the South Pole began to take shape. Training for Antarctica became a mission. The expedition team called it “The Push.” In July, with another adaptive athlete, John Davis, a two-time Paralympics gold … Continued
The Arctic. For centuries, it has called some of history’s greatest explorers—guys with names like Svavarsson, Peary and Amundsen—many of whom never made it back alive. Some froze, others starved. Which is why when you go, you should really bring a private chef… Introducing the Arctic Ski Cruise 2012, a nine-day sailing voyage through a … Continued
RENO, Nev. (AP) — A Nevada man paralyzed in a 2010 snowmobiling accident has reached the South Pole, traveling about 75 miles in sub-zero temperatures over two weeks to complete the trip on the 100th anniversary of Capt. Robert Falcon Scott’s trek there with the Terra Nova Expedition. Grant Korgan, who is paralyzed from the … Continued
Ice Axe Expeditions’s latest adventure takes skiers to a region known more for lost explorers and polar bears than carving. Its Arctic ski cruise in May 2012 heads to Norway’s Svalbard archipelago, just 600 miles from the North Pole, for riding pristine peaks. Guests can also explore mountainous Spitsbergen Island via snowmobile and skis on … Continued
At World’s End Climbing up and skiing down the world’s most remote peaks isn’t enough for ski mountaineer and polar guide Doug Stoup. He wants to share his adventures with the world. by Joanna Egan For polar pioneer Doug Stoup, the white caps at the ends of the Earth are the world’s last frontiers. Lured … Continued
What can I say, this trip has been everything I had hoped for. This dream trip was the brainchild of Iceaxe founder, Doug Stoup. For the past decade he had been basing out of Longyearbyen, Spitsbergen for his North Pole expeditions. After years of staring at the amazing snow covered peaks that few — if … Continued
