HI!
If any of you is interested about these kind of things.
One member of our fencing club, Teemu Lakkasuo, is skiing to South Pole right now. See the website (Teemu updates it almost daily):
http://etelanapa.fi/indexeng.html
Particularly, note the diary entry for 19.11:
http://etelanapa.fi/diary.html
If everything goes well, our club will be the first fencing club (well, probably) to have it's pennant in South Pole
JyJy