Commonwealth skiers bound for pole
An eight-woman team led by a Briton has set out from a base on Antarctica to ski to the South Pole to mark the 60th anniversary of the Commonwealth.
The team expects to take 40 days to travel more than 500 miles across the frozen southern continent.
Team leader Felicity Aston said the group is aiming to reach the South Pole by January 1 - the date the Commonwealth came into existence in 1950.
They plan to ski six to 10 hours a day, each woman pulling a sledge weighing 80 kilos.
The woman are from Brunei, Cyprus, Ghana, India, Jamaica, New Zealand, Singapore and Britain.