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Now that Sir Ranulph Fiennes and Michael Stroud have walked across the
Antarctic continent, there would seem to be few challenges left. Explorers
are rapidly running out of new worlds to conquer. But with the solution
of the mountain climbers’ problem a new possibility is opened up: synchronised
exploration. A modern-day Hillary and Ten-zing could ascend Everest from
both the Tibetan and Nepalese sides, always main-taining the same altitude.
A new Scott and Amundsen could attack both the North and South Poles simultaneously,
main-taining equal latitudes. Who knows, syn-chronised exploration could
really catch on. It could even become an Olympic sport . . .