Akshay Nanavati's historic 110-day solo ski expedition across Antarctica
Akshay Nanavati, a 40-year-old Indian American, embarked on the adventure of a lifetime -a 110-day skiing expedition across Antarctica. If he succeeds, Nanavati will become the first human to complete an unsupported, solo, 2,700-km, coast-to-coast, ski crossing of the coldest, driest, windiest and loneliest continent on the planet.
He will be dragging a 200-kg sled packed with food rations and fuel through the distance, surviving temperatures as low as minus 40 degrees. It's what adventurers call 'manhauling.'
Preparation itself cost Nanavati — an entrepreneur, speaker and author — the tips of two fingers, lost to frostbite. One was removed because of gangrene. This happened while climbing the Axel Heiberg Glacier in Canada, within the Arctic circle. Back from this ordeal, Nanavati opted for part of the other digit to be removed as well.
This was despite its recovery. Nanavati felt the digit was getting cold faster than other fingers, something that may well prove dangerous during the Antarctic adventure.
The digits add up in other ways too. Nanavati, along with wife Melissa, had to raise $1.12 million through crowdfunding for the mission.
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