A Spaniard pedaled in self-sufficiency to the South Pole
We echo this news published on the portal eldepornauta.com.ar where Spanish Juan Menéndez Granados He reached the South Pole by bicycle after pedaling a total of 1.200 kilometers without any external support or supply.
After 46 uninterrupted days to pure effort to overcome the extreme cold and a terrain that became more demanding as it advanced towards the goal, it made an unprecedented feat when arriving in Antarctica with a means of transport driven by blood traction. The Spaniard Juan Menéndez Granados arrived at the South Pole by bicycle after pedaling a total of 1.200 kilometers without any external support or supply.
Specialist in extreme long trips by bicycle through the most inaccessible places of the five continents, this Spanish cyclist of thirty years was popularly baptized as Juan without fear in reference to the children's story of the Brothers Grimm about an adventurer
That I was not afraid of anything or anyone. Although this white raid extended beyond what was initially planned, Juan Menéndez Granados pedaled the 1.200 kilometers through the snow and the cracks of Antarctic ice added to the winds with bursts of 70 klometres per hour and a thermal sensation of 30 degrees below zero.
Without more support, supply and hydration than the one that he himself carried at the beginning of his challenge, the cyclist Juan Menéndez Granados was fed during the last week with nuts y chocolate powder because, because the crossing was extended beyond what was planned, 90 had consumed percent of its reserves.
Owner of the finisher medal in the Siberian Black Ice Race in the Russian snows of Siberia, María Leijerstam She also traveled to the South Pole pedaling but she did it in a tricycle, a roll similar to a recumbent model but with two rear wheels with thick tires of eleven centimeters and a smaller forward one that increased the stability capitalizing even more the traction that made when pedaling.
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