In the 2011/12 summer, separate expeditions by Norwegian Aleksander Gamme and Australians James Castrission and Justin Jones jointly claimed the first unsupported trek without dogs or kites from the Antarctic coast to the South Pole and back.
30. decembra 1989 sta Arved Fuchs in Reinhold Messner kot prva prečkala Antarktiko preko Južnega tečaja brez pomoči vozil ali živalske vprege.