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• January 30, 2012 The Squaw Valley Institute Welcomes Home the South Pole Push Expedition

  The Squaw Valley Institute is set to hold a Welcome Home Event for the South Pole Push Expedition tomorrow, January 31st. The Tahoe-based team, led by adaptive athlete Grant Korgan made history on January 17th with the very first team of adaptive athletes trekking to the South Pole. The event begins on Tuesday, January 31st [...]

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• January 29, 2012 Paralyzed athlete Grant Korgan achieves polar goal

  This past summer, with Stoup, the world's most traveled polar explorer, and Fletcher, a world-class helicopter ski guide, plans for an expedition to the South Pole began to take shape. Training for Antarctica became a mission. The expedition team called it "The Push." In July, with another adaptive athlete, John Davis, a two-time Paralympics gold [...]

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• January 21, 2012 A Fjord-Hopping Ski Tour in the Arctic

  The Arctic. For centuries, it has called some of history’s greatest explorers—guys with names like Svavarsson, Peary and Amundsen—many of whom never made it back alive. Some froze, others starved. Which is why when you go, you should really bring a private chef... Introducing the Arctic Ski Cruise 2012, a nine-day sailing voyage through a [...]

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• January 18, 2012 Sports Illustrated: Man paralyzed in snowmobile accident reaches South Pole

  RENO, Nev. (AP) -- A Nevada man paralyzed in a 2010 snowmobiling accident has reached the South Pole, traveling about 75 miles in sub-zero temperatures over two weeks to complete the trip on the 100th anniversary of Capt. Robert Falcon Scott's trek there with the Terra Nova Expedition. Grant Korgan, who is paralyzed from the [...]

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• January 14, 2012 WSJ: Fresh in Powder, Epic in the Arctic

  Ice Axe Expeditions's latest adventure takes skiers to a region known more for lost explorers and polar bears than carving. Its Arctic ski cruise in May 2012 heads to Norway's Svalbard archipelago, just 600 miles from the North Pole, for riding pristine peaks. Guests can also explore mountainous Spitsbergen Island via snowmobile and skis on [...]

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• July 21, 2011 Doug featured in Australian Geographic

  At World's End Climbing up and skiing down the world's most remote peaks isn't enough for ski mountaineer and polar guide Doug Stoup. He wants to share his adventures with the world. by Joanna Egan For polar pioneer Doug Stoup, the white caps at the ends of the Earth are the world's last frontiers. Lured [...]

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• June 1, 2011 Skiing Svalbard (with Photos)

  What can I say, this trip has been everything I had hoped for. This dream trip was the brainchild of Iceaxe founder, Doug Stoup. For the past decade he had been basing out of Longyearbyen, Spitsbergen for his North Pole expeditions. After years of staring at the amazing snow covered peaks that few -- if [...]

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• May 25, 2011 Norway Ski Cruise 2011 Photos (Itinerary 1)
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• August 21, 2010 Norway Ski Cruise 2011

  Intimate ski mountaineering trip aboard a 10 passenger 65 ft sailing vessel.  Spend your days exploring untouched terrain -- what ski mountaineers who have traveled the world say is some of the best they have ever experienced. Choose from 2 different 8 day itineraries: May 21 - 28, 2011 // May 28 - June 4, [...]

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• June 19, 2010 Storm Adventures Offers Summer Norway Cruises

  Storm Adventures offers Summer Norway Cruises This August, Ice Axe partners with Storm adventures and invites you to experience the beauty and contrasts of Svalbard, Norway aboard an ice-class Swedish Search and Rescue boat. Participate in the action packed itineraries or simply indulge in some much needed time-out against a backdrop of breath-taking scenery. Spend [...]

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• June 2, 2010 Doug & Ice Axe featured on ESPN.com

  How do you describe a two-week ski expedition that involves a 10-hour, 150-mile snowmobile approach, climbing and descending giant, virgin couloirs in pink light from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m., in front of Warren Miller cameras, on a Norwegian island 500 miles south of the North Pole, where polar bears are not only large but [...]

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• April 12, 2010 Doug reaches North Pole with Parker Liautaud

  After 8 days of some of the worst conditions I have witnessed on the arctic ocean, Parker and I had to call off the expedition due to a large open water lead many miles long that was impossible to get around to achieve our goal. Throughout the week, Parker and I encountered significant negative southward [...]

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• January 18, 2010 North Pole 2010

  Polar Resolutions? North Pole 2010: April 11 to 22, 2010 Space Still Available  What's on your list for 2010? Dream big and reach the North Pole in 2010. Ice Axe Expeditions still has positions on its North Pole Expedition Team for April 11 to 22, 2010. Travel via ski over frozen ice fields from the [...]

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• October 13, 2009 The Amazon Awaits!

  Come join the ICE AXE Crew for The AMAZON RAINFOREST Expedition Jan 24-Feb 6, 2010. ICE AXE led an incredible amazon Expedition in 2007 and returns this year for another exciting expedition up the Rio Negro fishing for peacock bass, piranha, and view some most amazing wildlife such as Tucans, monkeys and caimon. This expedition will be [...]

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• October 12, 2009 Ice Axe and WOHI Host NYC Fundraiser

  Doug Stoup and Monica Westin hosted a fundraising party at the penthouse apartment of Brian Mehling on September 22, 2009. Dr. Mehling was extremely generous to donate the space to support the efforts of World of Hope International and the Ice Axe Foundation. It was a wonderful fall evening overlooking the beautiful Manhattan sky line. Attendees were United [...]

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