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British explorer who took part in the first overland crossing of Antarctica with Vivian Fuchs and reached the South Pole by dog sleigh

What could possibly attract a surveyor to the bleak wastelands of the Antarctic? Ken Blaiklock knew the answer. “It’s impossible now, but in the 1950s you could discover a range of mountains like the Shackletons, 150 miles long, that had never been seen before,” he told the British Antarctic Survey Club in 2013. “Not many surveyors have had the luck to do that.”...What could possibly attract a surveyor to the bleak wastelands of the Antarctic? Ken Blaiklock...What could possibly attract a surveyor to the bleak wastelands of the Antarctic? Ken Blaiklock...