Trekking 209 km in their last week (1,089 km total), Richard Dunwoody and Doug Stoup arrived at the Geographic South Pole on 18 January 2008 at 10:23 GMT after 48 days and 20 hours on the glacial ice -- establishing a new route based on Ernest Shackleton's planned 1915 'Endurance' expedition.

Pushing the limits, and despite injuries and exhaustion, the two-man team arrived ahead of schedule at the new Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Antarctica. They remained there until Monday, when they were flown out to the Russian base at Novolazarevskaya for a connecting flight to Cape Town, South Africa and then home.