<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c561800e-443d-4861-b07e-7683450f88be/A302F22B-90B1-4297-90E2-3FC4785C4E2F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://bacontoday.com/bacon-gets-canadians-to-south-pole-in-record-time/" href="http://bacontoday.com/bacon-gets-canadians-to-south-pole-in-record-time/" style="font-size: 11px;">bacontoday.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bacontoday.com/bacon-gets-canadians-to-south-pole-in-record-time/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/bacontoday.com/img/1D663DEB-6B83-4BDE-82FE-0225094D9642" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bacontoday.com/bacon-gets-canadians-to-south-pole-in-record-time/"><P>The fastest trek across <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctica">Antarctica</A> to the South Pole was completed by three Canadian men on <SPAN class="newstext">January 7, 2009</SPAN>. <A href="http://southpolequest.com/?s=team">Ray Zahab, Kevin Vallely and Richard Weber</A> finished the trip in 33 days, 23 hours and 30 minutes (a total of 1,130 km - about 700 miles - was traveled).</p> <P>“They say they suffered white-out but survived on a high-calorie diet of <STRONG>deep-fried bacon</STRONG>, cheese and butter” stated <A href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7819357.stm">BBC.com</A>. The journey began at the Hercules Inlet on Antarctica’s Ronne Ice Shelf and continued to the South Pole.</p> <P>The men used satellite phones to record audio and GPS devices to allow people to track their progress. Listen to their final<A href="http://southpolequest.com/podcasts/41_jan6_day_33.mp3" class="ymp-btn-page-play ymp-media-0867cc25225d8cea167aa0ae5eb4bcc3"> celebratory audio recording<EM class="ymp-skin"></EM></A>.</p> <P>This historic event is further proof that with bacon, anything is possible. Congratulations to our Canadian bacon lovers and their monumental trek with bacon as their salty fuel.</p> <P>Read more about their adventure of courage and bacon at: <A href="http://southpolequest.com/">http://southpolequest.com/</A>.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A302F22B-90B1-4297-90E2-3FC4785C4E2F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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