Tim Jarvis is an Australian explorer and adventurer. He is best known for his Antarctic expedition of 1999, undertaken with french/mauritian adventurer, Daniel Jeux, and known as Operation Chillout Expedition. This took him into the record books as Joint World Record holder for the fastest unsupported journey to the Geographic South Pole and the longest unsupported Antarctica journey in history.
Recreation of Douglas Mawson's Expedition
Tim Jarvis recently completed an expedition in Antarctica where he attempted to recreate the amazing expedition and human feat of Sir Douglas Mawson. Jarvis walked close to 500km pulling a sleigh full of supplies living on almost the same rations as Mawson himself. Jarvis wanted to find out if the story of Mawson was physically possible. At the end of the expedition Jarvis said, "I haven't really done what Mawson did because I have doctors checking my situation, a film crew following me and a number of other safety precautions. Mawson had none of that."
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