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Hello everyone!

An expedition has been formed to skydive at the South Pole, Antarctica in early December, 2014. Limited amount of slots still available and some people are on board already including Omar Alhegelan.

1. Kick off - First half of December, 2014 (exact date to be finalized)
2. Duration - approximately 2 weeks
3. Start and end point – Cape Town, South Africa
4. Must have C or D license or the equivalent.
4. Price starting 30,000 Euro per person (price depends on the final group size)
5. Option to do a High altitude jump with supplementary oxygen equipment (for extra charge)
6. This trip will allow you to have an incredible once in a life time experience in Antarctica, spending some time at the actual South Pole, observing wild life, visiting Antarctic mountains and much more.
7. Tandem option available for non jumpers

If interested please contact me at Alexander Zadirov (Zander-alex@mail.ru), I will be able to provide a detailed itinerary for this trip

Alex

(for those who like technical manuals)

WARNING: Supplemental oxygen and cold weather correction to your altimetry are highly recommended.

(And good luck!)

http://parachutistonline.com/...-from-the-south-pole

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I wish you luck in your endeavors but for 30,000 Euros one could do mount Everest twice.

Your right, the price is completely outrageous and we have looked at carefully. I've dropped down some comments below to give us a better insight on this. The main reason is a massive cost baseline for such and similar projects - which in turn forms the price per person.

In this particular case 80% of the costs are logistics costs which are comprised of:

- bringing in Ilyushin-76 jet with the crew from Russia to Cape Town for the entire Antarctic season and sending it back (fuel costs, crew costs, parking costs, service costs etc)
- Fuel brought in by the ice breaker to Antarctica to be used for the refueling and camp operations purposes (costs of the ice breaker freight)
- Construction of a temporary refueling base camp using cargo dropping from Ilyushin in order for Basler to make to the South pole and back (cost of the Ilyushin loads for fuel drops (running on Antarctic fuel which costs significantly higher))
- bringing in Basler aircrafts and its crews for the entire Antarctic season (fuel costs, crew costs, parking costs, service costs etc)
- Total of 14 flying hours on Ilyushin-76 cargo jet (flying back to Cape town on Antarctic fuel which costs significantly higher)
- Total of 16 flying hours on Basler which runs on Antarctic fuel

The rest are accommodation, supply costs, costs of staff, overheads etc.

This is in general what forms such substantial price. At the same time it gives us this really unique opportunity to skydive to the South Pole and make a personal history for each of us.

 

While this is a skydive, I do see that it's more in-line with BASE jumping skill sets given the expedition-style adventure that I'm sure it will be.

Probably more interest here than at your typical DZ.

I have usually found BASE jumpers to be a eclectic group who are looking for their next adventure and are proven to be capable of stepping outside the normal boundaries of skydiving. For this reason I thought other BASE jumpers might be interested in this South Pole expedition.

Why are you paying for the entire season if you only plan on being there for part of it?