The first journey is already complete!
 

Using mainly human power, the first international team trekked from the North Pole to the South Pole traveling throughout North and South America in journey that took nine months.

The first team were eight young adults from seven different countries and five different continents. Their message was, we can shape the world by actively participating as global citizens.

This team traveled 25,000 miles by ski, kayak, foot, bicycle and canoe to complete their pole to pole journey.

Along the route the team worked with humanitarian and environmental initiatives. The included war orphans in Nicaragua, poverty in Peru, the homeless in New York and penguin habitat protection in Chile.

The team made in-person presentations to 50,000 young people in schools and colleges about their journey.
 

Over 500 million people throughout the world learned about the trek and its purpose through media coverage.

Sixty million people saw the two part television special documentary.

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The result is hundreds of thousands of youth inspired to set goals for themselves to participate in a wide range of global citizenship activities including: feeding the homeless, tree planting, recycling and community volunteering.

For more information about the first journey "Pole to Pole 2000" please visit the old Pole to Pole 2000 website at: http://www.pole2pole2000.com/oldsite/home.htm
 

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