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Brits set South Pole rematch 97 years after Amundsen

3:22 pm, January 18, 2008 EST — Reuters: International News

OSLO (Reuters) - Frostbite and hundreds of miles of icy crevasses pose timeless dangers in a new international race to the South Pole nearly a century after Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen beat Britain's Robert Scott to reach it.

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