September 12, 2006

SOUTH postponed by a year.: SpoFi is the sponsor of Mile 27 of Ben Saunders's planned expedition to walk to the South Pole and back. I received an email this weekend (as the one who put up the money for the sponsorship) from Ben informing us that his expedition would be postponed for a year. Full email inside. (btw, Ben is also a Spofite.)

posted by worldcup2002 to extreme at 12:31 AM - 4 comments

Email from Ben (posted with his permission): Hi everyone, First up, my apologies for the mass email, and for the recent radio silence. It's been a crazy few months and I thought it was high time I gave you a progress report. Tony and I have just taken the tough decision to postpone SOUTH by a year, largely due to difficulties with sponsors working on such a short timeframe, but also to give us time to focus on filming for a forthcoming Discovery Channel TV special on the expedition and to build on our partnerships with Yahoo! (SOUTH's online media partner) and with schools in the UK and US. I want to say a HUGE thank you for your support and generosity, and hope you'll understand that we can't afford to take any half-measures when it comes to being prepared for an expedition on such an unprecedented scale. I promise to be a little more communicative as we build up to our departure for Antarctica in October 2007! Feel free to drop me a line at any time. Best wishes to you all, Ben Saunders

posted by worldcup2002 at 12:33 AM on September 12, 2006

Thanks for the news and such, wc02, but shouldn't this be in the Locker Room?

posted by scully at 06:42 AM on September 12, 2006

Yeah, on review, it would probably have been better placed in the LR. Mea culpa.

posted by worldcup2002 at 01:09 PM on September 12, 2006

Thanks for the update.

posted by justgary at 02:18 PM on September 13, 2006

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