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Crossing the Southern Ocean

ROAM with Mike Horn

Very few have sailed to Antarctica in this manner (think Shackleton, Amundsen and Scott) and nobody has ever succeeded in crossing the continent on a route as long or aggressive as Mike has planned. Adding an immense amount of difficulty and risk to the continental expedition is the Southern Ocean crossing.

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