阅读Fat and shy, Ben Saunders was the last kid in his class picked for any sports team. “Football, tennis, cricket--- anything with a round ball, I was useless,” he says now with a laugh. But back then he was the one always made fun of in school gym classes in Devonshire, England.
It was a mountain bike he received for his 15th birthday that changed him. At first he went biking alone in a nearby forest. Then he began to ride the bike along with a runner friend. Gradually, Saunders set up his mind on building up his body, increasing his speed and strength. At the age of 18, he ran his first marathon.
The following year he met John Ridgway and was hired as an instructor at Ridgway’s school of adventure in Scotland, where he learnt about Ridgway’s cold-water exploits. Greatly interested, Saunders read all he could about North Pole explorers and adventures, the decided that this would be his future.
In 2001, after becoming a skillful skier, Saunders started his first long-distance expedition towards the North Pole. It took unbelievable energy. He suffered frostbite, ran into a polar bear and pushed his body to the limit, pulling his supply-loaded sled up and over rocky rice.
Saunders has since become the youngest person to ski alone to the North Pole, and he’s skied more of the North Pole by himself than any other British man. His old playmates would not believe the change.
Next October, Saunders, 27, heads south from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole and back, a 2900-kilometer journey that has never been completed on skis.
这是一个山地自行车,他收到他的15岁生日,改变了他。起初他独自一个人在附近的森林里骑脚踏车。然后,他开始骑自行车随着跑步的朋友。渐渐地,桑德斯建立自己的心灵上建立自己的身体,提高自己的速度和力量。18岁的时候,他第一次跑马拉松。
第二年,他遇见了约翰·里治威作为指导者在被雇佣的学校里治威在苏格兰的冒险,他在那里学到关于里治威的冷水的功绩。极感兴趣,他可以读所有关于桑德斯北极探险家和冒险的决定,这将是他的未来。
在2001年,成为一个熟练的滑雪者,桑德斯开始第一次长途远征走向北极。它将难以置信的能量。他遭受冻伤,碰到了一只北极熊,把身体的限制,把他的supply-loaded雪橇越过岩石大米。
桑德斯已经成为最年轻的人去滑雪,独自到北极,和他的滑雪更多的北极自己比其他任何英国人。他的旧的玩伴的变化都不相信。
明年十月,桑德斯,27岁,从南海岸的南极和南极洲旅行回来,2900-kilometer从未完成滑雪。