POLE TO POLE series Introduction Traditional Cache
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POLE TO POLE series Introduction
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This series of caches is aptly named and an insight to the famous TV series Michael Palin’s Pole to Pole
Dates: May and July – December 1991,
Number of days: 141,
Countries visited: 16,
Distance travelled: 12,500 miles,
Illnesses contracted: Cracked Ribs, Severe Hangover, Near Drowning
“Pole to Pole is, like Around the World in 80 Days, based upon diaries and tape-recordings kept at the time. They describe the pain and the pleasure of the journey as it happened. I have deliberately not used the benefit of hindsight to change any of those entries. What you get is what we saw and experienced in those extraordinary months between the Poles - warts, bedbugs and all.
A journey from North to South Poles along the 30 degree East line of longitude, chosen because it crossed the greatest amount of land
Pole to Pole by Public Transport, but owing to the absence of a bus route through the African bush or an Away day across Antarctica, this had to be dismissed as wishful thinking. In the event, though we relied on aircraft to get us to the Poles themselves, we completed the rest of the journey overland, on a mixture of ships, trains, trucks, rafts, Ski-Doos, buses, barges, bicycles, balloons, 4-litre Land cruisers and horse-drawn carts.
The bulk of the journey was made between July and Christmas 1991. With one ten-day break at Aswan we travelled and filmed for five months, passing through seventeen countries and making over seventy overnight stops.
We were unable to film at the North Pole in July as no plane would take the risk of landing on the summer ice, so the section from the North Pole to Tromsø in Norway was filmed separately, in May.
1991 was an exceptional year. A quarter of the countries we visited had undergone, or were undergoing, momentous changes. Communism disappeared in the USSR and apartheid in South Africa. We arrived in Ethiopia four months after the conclusion of a civil war that had occupied parts of the country for thirty years and in Zambia on the day Kenneth Kaunda's 28-year reign ended”.
Now for the cache. You are looking for a film canister sized container. The cache (not the container) is unusual so think about the title,
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