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conversations.value: What could be a title for a book about Antarctica, Armchair, July with the genre: Travel, Polar Regions?
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conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'Crossing Antarctica'
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conversations.value: What is the first five paragraphs for this book?
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conversations.value: Crossing Antarctica
  When we made camp last night we were at 87° 14′, according to Argos, which is back in service due to a good, clear radio signal. Today, after traveling twenty-five miles, we estimate we're at 87° 35′. Sometime tomorrow morning we should cross south of 88°. The miles, and the degrees, just keep ticking by.
  Today was spent battling head winds, which was not easily done on foot or ski, and I ended up running alongside the sled most of the afternoon, taking up the rear position. The running helped keep me warm on a day when both Geoff and Dahe complained of being cold.
  There is a shared sentiment in camp that the most-welcome change upon arriving at the South Pole will be our diet. Dahe's breakfasts are getting stranger by the day. First he boils up granola bars in water—they are too hard on his teeth otherwise—and mixes in a little oatmeal, to create a kind of "trail soup." He chases that concoction with biscuits slathered with peanut butter, a can of sardines and a Shaklee chocolate "Energy Bar." As for me, I've switched to a compulsory eating program and am forcing myself to swallow one package—eight ounces—of cheese every night on my noodles or rice. That makes dinner one of the most unpleasant parts of the day; I often wish we could somehow get by without eating.
  With the clear radio signal last night we were also able to contact Messner. He was within two days of his first cache site but uncertain whether Adventure Network planned to meet him there. He asked if we could contact Patriot Hills and ascertain if and when he should expect a resupply; apparently the radio he's carrying is very small and, given the difficult atmospheric conditions, he's been unable to raise anyone there for days. We advised him we would try and then contact him again tomorrow night. He was at roughly 85° latitude and hopes to be at the South Pole by December 20. He has been covering about one degree every five days, and at that rate I don't see how he'll get there until at least the twenty-eighth, which threatens his ability to get to McMurdo before conditions make overland traveling impossible, sometime near the end of February. He knows he must pick up speed, but the conditions for man hauling have hardly been good; he reports that deep sastrugi and soft snow continue to slow them down.
  It was formally announced today that the Soviet Antarctic Expedition has agreed to provide twelve tons of fuel to the expedition at the South Pole. While they had seriously considered airdropping it, that plan was scrapped as too dangerous and costly. Instead, the Soviets made a deal for fuel already in Antarctica and will pay back the debt out of their supply at King George Island. After many sleepless nights—here on the ice, in St. Paul, Paris, Moscow and Punta Arenas—our biggest logistical problem appears now to be behind us. The only flaw is that the Soviets' help cost the expedition considerable money; hopefully Adventure Network, whom we had paid up front for the fuel, will reimburse us.
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conversations.value: Afterward we were invited to the sauna, a small, five-man room inside the generator shed. The sauna was 250°, average for the Soviets, but only Victor and I were able to stand it for long. I scrubbed myself for a couple of hours, relieving my body of five months of dried and dead skin, and then went outside and sat in the -20° weather for ten minutes, under a clear, windy sky. It was quite a treat, and my sore muscles and sallow skin appreciated it.
  We had dinner of chicken and potatoes with Alexander. At my urging a map of Canada was produced, and I spent two hours studying its details. Later that night there was a small party in our honor featuring a four-person rock 'n' roll band playing makeshift instruments including a can filled with sand and a plastic bucket made into a drum.
  Early in the evening our confirmation of reaching Vostok and having crossed the area of inaccessibility was made when Jean-Louis spoke by Marisat (the marine telephone used at Vostok) to Cite´ de la Science, the Paris science museum at La Villette. They had been dialing Vostok simply to test the lines and were surprised to find Jean-Louis at the other end. Later he sent a satellite message to Argos that read simply, "Vostok, houra [sic]." When asked about our "major geographical discovery," Jean-Louis explained he'd sent that message out of frustration at not being able to reach anyone as we neared the end of the area of inaccessibility.
  As midnight neared, Jean-Louis and I took a break outside. A nearby thermometer read -30°, but it dropped as we stood nearby. The "home stretch" awaited us, and we stood silently for a few minutes then talked about our luck so far.
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conversations.value: What is the last five paragraphs?
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conversations.value: A formidable voice calling for understanding and the preservation of the Arctic and the Earth, Will Steger is best known for his legendary polar explorations.
  He has traveled tens of thousands of miles by kayak and dogsled for more than 45 years, leading teams on some of the most significant polar expeditions in history, earning him the Lifetime Achievement award from National Geographic Adventure in 2007. Will led the first confirmed dogsled journey to the North Pole without re-supply in 1986, the 1,600-mile south-north traverse of Greenland (the longest unsupported dogsled expedition in history) in 1988, and led the first dogsled traverse of Antarctica (the historic seven month, 3,471-mile International Trans-Antarctica Expedition) in 1989–90.
  Steger joined Amelia Earhart, Robert Peary and Roald Amundsen in receiving the National Geographic Society's prestigious John Oliver La Gorce Medal in 1995. In 1996, he became the National Geographic Society's first Explorer-in-Residence. In 1997, he was honored by the Explorers Club with the Finn Ronne Memorial Award. Thor Heyerdahl and Neil Armstrong in receiving the Lindbergh Award. The same year Steger was appointed by Governor Tim Pawlenty to serve on the Minnesota Climate Change Advisory Group, a group charged with recommending a Climate Action Plan to substantially reduce Minnesota's greenhouse gas emissions.
  A six-time grantee of the National Geographic Expeditions Council and award-winning writer and filmmaker Jon Bowermaster recently concluded OCEANS 8, a project that took him and his teams around the world by sea kayak from 1998-2008, on expeditions ranging from the Aleutian Islands to Vietnam, French Polynesia to Chile/Argentina/Bolivia, Gabon to Croatia and Tasmania to Antarctica. Seeing the world from the seat of a sea kayak has given Bowermaster a one-of-a-kind look at both the health of the planet's ocean and the lives of the nearly 3 billion people around the globe who depend on it.
  Since the Trans-Antarctica expedition Bowermaster has visited Antarctica a dozen times; his award-winning 2009 film Terra Antarctica, Rediscovering the Seventh Continent explores the length of the Antarctic Peninsula.
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conversations.value: Add another sentence about Steger, Jacques-Yves, Cousteau, joined.
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conversations.value: A formidable voice calling for understanding and the preservation of the Arctic and the Earth, Will Steger is best known for his legendary polar explorations. 
  He has traveled tens of thousands of miles by kayak and dogsled for more than 45 years, leading teams on some of the most significant polar expeditions in history, earning him the Lifetime Achievement award from National Geographic Adventure in 2007. Will led the first confirmed dogsled journey to the North Pole without re-supply in 1986, the 1,600-mile south-north traverse of Greenland (the longest unsupported dogsled expedition in history) in 1988, and led the first dogsled traverse of Antarctica (the historic seven month, 3,471-mile International Trans-Antarctica Expedition) in 1989–90. 
  Steger joined Amelia Earhart, Robert Peary and Roald Amundsen in receiving the National Geographic Society's prestigious John Oliver La Gorce Medal in 1995. In 1996, he became the National Geographic Society's first Explorer-in-Residence. In 1997, he was honored by the Explorers Club with the Finn Ronne Memorial Award. In 2006, Steger joined Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Dr. Thor Heyerdahl and Neil Armstrong in receiving the Lindbergh Award. The same year Steger was appointed by Governor Tim Pawlenty to serve on the Minnesota Climate Change Advisory Group, a group charged with recommending a Climate Action Plan to substantially reduce Minnesota's greenhouse gas emissions. 
  A six-time grantee of the National Geographic Expeditions Council and award-winning writer and filmmaker Jon Bowermaster recently concluded OCEANS 8, a project that took him and his teams around the world by sea kayak from 1998-2008, on expeditions ranging from the Aleutian Islands to Vietnam, French Polynesia to Chile/Argentina/Bolivia, Gabon to Croatia and Tasmania to Antarctica. Seeing the world from the seat of a sea kayak has given Bowermaster a one-of-a-kind look at both the health of the planet's ocean and the lives of the nearly 3 billion people around the globe who depend on it. 
  Since the Trans-Antarctica expedition Bowermaster has visited Antarctica a dozen times; his award-winning 2009 film Terra Antarctica, Rediscovering the Seventh Continent explores the length of the Antarctic Peninsula.