Børge Ousland
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Børge Ousland
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Børge Ousland is a Norwegian polar explorer. He was the first person to cross Antarctica solo. He started his career as a Norwegian Navy Special Forces Officer with Marinejegerkommandoen, and he also spent several years working as a deep sea diver for the oil industry in the North Sea. On 4 May 1990 Ousland and Erling Kagge became the first explorers ever to reach the North Pole unsupported, after a 58-day ski trek from Ellesmere Island in Canada, a distance of 800 km. In 1994, he made the first
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Norwegian polar explorer, photographer and writer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%B8rge_Ousland
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2024-04-13T18:03:44Z
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