HOW A SIMPLE TRACTOR 🚜🏔 CONQUERED THE SOUTH POLE

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In 1957, a team of Kiwis, led by Sir Edmund Hillary, set out to on a journey across Antarctica. they were there to support a Commonwealth Expedition to cross the continent, but soon they'd be at South Pole—not in tanks or snowcats, but in three tiny Ferguson farm tractors. I travel to France to track one of these amazing machines down.
18 years ago, Simon Coggins recorded a projection of a documentary on the crossing. He uploaded it to Youtube and, thanks to him, we can watch it. If only more places uploaded such archives! • The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expe...
"The Great Achievement" film on the crossing: • The Great Achievement
Antarctica 2 Crossing - worth a watch! • Antarctica2 tractor arrives in Antarc...
Brilliant 90's Documentary about the Ferguson: • The Ferguson TEA 20 - BBC Perpetual M...
Sources:
Shackleton's Dream by Stephen Haddelsey
UK: https://amzn.to/4hQGUr2
Antarctica: A Biography by David Day (amazing book)
UK: https://amzn.to/42bcsSy
US: https://amzn.to/443dqCY
Great history on the Ferguson Tractor, Harry especially. https://forums.yesterdaystractors.com...
Great article about the tractors uses in Antarctica:
https://www.fofh.co.uk/articles/pole.htm
Incredible two-part magazine feature about the Fergusons time in Antarctica. Truly definitive history of the crossing:
Part 1 -
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Part 2 -https://static1.squarespace.com/stati...
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00:00 - The Tractor that Drove to the End of the Earth
01:52 - Why The Ferguson Tractor?
06:21 - Thanks Odoo!
08:12 - A Race for Antarctica
09:14 - The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition
10:40 - The Expedition's Choice of Vehicles
11:28 - Fergusons in Antarctica: A Reliable Choice
13:09 - Hillary's Ferguson Improvements
17:46 - The Tractors Head South
20:49 - Hillary Makes for the Pole
22:40 - Hillary and the Tractors Make History
24:43 - Fuch's Crossing Continues
26:08 - What Happened to the Tractors?
27:24 - Antarctica 2: Antarctic Crossing Boogaloo!
28:38 - Khakovchanka
30:02 - Waffling on a Bit

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5nfFlfp4Ls

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