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    as Fuchs' overland party. List of Antarctic expeditions "The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition - 1955-58, Vivian Fuchs and Sir Edmund Hillary". Cool...
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    in an accident. Prior to the Everest expedition, Hillary had been part of the British reconnaissance expedition to the mountain in 1951 as well as an...
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    Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition which reached the South Pole overland in 1958. Fuchs was the son of the German immigrant Ernst Fuchs from the Jena area...
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    1956–1958 – Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition – led by Vivian Fuchs 1956–1958 – 2nd Soviet Antarctic Expedition – led by Aleksei Treshnikov 1957–1958...
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    the Pole overland. Fuchs' team reached the Pole from the opposite direction on 19 January 1958, where they met up with Hillary. Fuchs then continued overland...
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    1999, pp. 304–305. Fuchs & Hillary 1958, p. 293. Alexander, C. (1998). The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition. New York: Knopf. ISBN 9780375404030...
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    George Lowe (mountaineer) (category Edmund Hillary)
    surviving member of the 1953 British Mount Everest Expedition, during which his friend Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first known people...
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    Arved Fuchs (born 26 April 1953) is a German polar explorer and writer. On 30 December 1989, Fuchs and Reinhold Messner were the first to reach the South...
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    Edmund Hillary (4 January 1958) and Vivian Fuchs (19 January 1958) and their respective parties, during the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition. There...
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    Siberia skiing to Canada over the North Pole aided by satellites. 1989: Arved Fuchs and Reinhold Messner are the first to reach the South Pole and cross Antarctica...
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