How to get to Antarctica without using a travel company

How to get to Antarctica without using a travel company

10/14/2019 10:43:43 PM

Couldn’t be easier.

You just hire a plane (I mean "a private plane charter") to fly you there, and another one to fly you back from the other side.

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Any jet charter in NZ will do it, and any number of companies do it enough they actually have Google-Ad-Words web sites for the function.

Simply google "private jet charter, NZ to Antartica".

Or phone any major jet charter company in NZ (or perhaps Tasmania, or just Melbourne – I mean what the hell is the odd thousand miles one way or the other here?) and ask for a price for the two legs.

My guess is it would actually cost less to hire a jet than to have a boat/ship of some type take you on both legs.

I’d guess the cost of two such jet rentals would be perhaps around $150,000 all-up.

(The tiny figures mentioned elsewhere, 20 grand etc, are almost certainly for a tour of some 10-30 I’d guess people, and it seems OP does not want a tour-bus approach – and fair enough!)

It’s very easy to get to Antartica, you just rent a jet – in answer to your question.

Has anyone ever crossed Antartica solo ?

It looks like yes, a couple different blokes have arguably done this:

https://explorersweb.com/2018/12/27/obradys-antarctic-crossing-was-it-really-unassisted/

It takes two months.

Interesting, there is a HUGE difference and debate between unsupported and unassisted in the Exploration Thrills world.

Has anyone actually "crossed" Antartica anyway ?

NOTE that these dudes took the shortest imaginable route "across" (ROFL) Antartica:

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OP, the field is wide open to be the first to actually go "across" Antartica.

Godspeed.

Actually it looks like a Norwegian bloke, Borge Ousland, actually did it properly without using roads back in the 90s.

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Random photo of impossibly rugged Norwegian Borge Ousland who did what OP asks about.

Seems he ingeniously used a kite where possible, like ski-kiteing.

10/12/2019 11:11:04 AM

Companies such as Antarctica Logistics provide transport to and from the continent. Prices in general appear quite high.

I would suggest doing multiple long ski tours before attempting this, for somewhat obvious reasons…

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