Antarctica Gets Hot for Another Reason: Tourists
For more than $10,000, you can check the South Pole off your bucket list in style.
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In January 1966, the first ship carrying “citizen-explorers” arrived in Antarctica. At the time, only a handful of leisure travelers had ever considered visiting the world’s most remote land mass.
“I was aware that the idea of setting up tours to that frozen continent would be tangled with complications,” wrote Swedish-American entrepreneur Lars-Eric Lindblad, who led that initial group of 57 onto the ice. “Going there might even be impossible.”