Dixie Dansercoer
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Dixie Dansercoer (born 1962, Nieuwpoort, Belgium) is a world-renowned explorer, endurance athlete and photographer.
He has held records or won prizes for high altitude mountain biking, windsurfing, ultramarathon running and expedition film-making. In 1997-8, he made a record-breaking crossing of Antarctica with Alain Hubert.
In 2006, the European Space Agency commissioned Hubert and him to measure snow cover in the Arctic so that they could calibrate measurements taken with the CryoSat 2 satellite. The two left Cape Arkticheskiy, Siberia on 1 March 2007. They reached the North Pole after 55 days and Greenland in another 51 days, the first time anyone had walked from Siberia to Greenland.
January 15, 2008, Dixie and six others were spotted windsurfing and kite boarding in the frigid waters near Palmer Station, a U.S. station north of the Antarctic Circle. They were invited onto the base and thoroughly enjoyed the local bar.
[edit] References
- Profile
- National Geographic Magazine
- New Scientist (Subscription only, or in New Scientist, 17 November 2007 p.54-5)
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