TIL Sir Edmund Hillary (one of the first men to climb Mt.Everest) was also in the third expedition to reach the South Pole overland after Roald Amundsen's and Captain Scott's expeditions. Albeit 46 years after Scott.
news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/jan...Posted Mar 26, 2014, 8:56 AM UTC
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Here is your chance to digitally walk both the Hillary Mount Everest Expedition and Amundsen's South Pole Expedition in Google Earth.
Included in the following Google maps are KML files that enable you to digitally climb Hillary's route up Mount Everest and walk Amundsen's route to the South Pole.
Hillary's 1953 Mount Everest Climb: http://myreadingmapped.blogspot.com/2012/01/hillarys-1953-everest-climb.html
Amundsen's 1910-1911 South Pole expedition: http://myreadingmapped.blogspot.com/2013/04/roald-amundsens-1910-1911-south-pole.html