1st Wheelchair Man to Touch South Pole

1st Wheelchair Man to Touch South Pole

Aron Anderson a Swedish national got cancer in the lower back when he was seven years old and been in wheelchair ever since.

Anderson is not an ordinary badass, uncompromising person. He had participated in four Paralympic Games, hand-cycling from Sweden to  Paris, climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, and completing two Stockholm Marathons.

Aron Anderson on his wheelchair  on skis ( Image Courtesy :Pole of Hope) 

Anderson went out for this arduous journey of reaching South Pole with the objective of raising one euro for each metre of his move to benefit the Swedish Childhood Cancer Foundation.

Anderson trekked 640 kms from the edge of Antarctica to South Pole. The journey took a frigid twenty one days, as temperature averaged  -30 degrees Celsius. He had quite a bit of wind  so there was a chill factor of  -36 degrees.

Image Courtesy :Pole of Hope

Anderson catapulted himself with just his arm muscles for ten hours each day of the 21-day journey. It was the greatest of the challenges to reach the 620 mile-wide  polar plateau. It was a climb of around 2000 metres which was really hard.

Anderson dubbed this project "Pole of Hope".

Anderson's incredible athletic achievement! Is not it? So get inspired.