The next South Pole Race begins on 1st January 2012 celebrating the 100th Anniversry of Scott and Amundsen's race to be the first people to reach the Geographic South Pole.

The race covers 430 nautical miles spilt into two stages of approximately the same length testing both the stamina, will power and durability of the entrants.

In 2009 a documentary was aired on BBC 2 covering the expolits of James Cracknell and Ben Fogle who undertook the race gaining a lot of media attention.