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  • Meet the Team
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    • New Zealand 2024
    • Ecuador 2023
    • Dempster Highway 2022
    • Greenland 2018
    • Paris Marathon 2018
    • Everest 2017
    • Nahanni 2015
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    • South Pole 2013
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    • Nepal 2008
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NORTH POLE – 2010

In what is believed to be a world-first, a heart transplant patient along with his transplant doctor skied over 150 kilometres, over ice, snow drifts, across open water, through gale-force winds and freezing temperatures to make it to the North Pole in April 2010. Along with three other adventurous team members, it took 11 days to reach the northernmost point of the globe.

Read more in the  North Pole blog

Three people standing in the snow holding a Gift of Life banner.
Heather Ross sitting in the snow with a red tent in the background.
People walking through the snow in the North Pole.
Two people standing in the snow embracing each other with a helicopter in the background.
The team walking through snow
Dale Shippam wearing a red jacket with a fur hood, sitting in the snow.
Tents set up in the snow.
People walking away from a plane landed on snow. The sun is close to setting in the background.
Person standing on a mountain with other mountains in the background.
Person sitting in the snow wearing a warm jacket.
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