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21-743: The original idea for the expedition was conceived by Ginny Fiennes in February 1972. The trip was entirely funded through sponsorships and the free labour of the expedition members, which took seven years to organize. Before the expedition, they had to limit the food that they ate. They brought a large amount of bread, cereal, and coffee. During their crossing of the Sahara , they brought no butter because of high temperatures. They also had to use repellent cream and anti-malarial tablets in order to keep insects away. Ranulph Fiennes, Charles Burton, and Oliver Shepard left London on 2 September 1979, beginning with

42-548: A highly proficient hill farmer on one of the highest working farms in the South West. In November 2003, she was found to be suffering from stomach cancer , diagnosed on the day after her husband returned from running seven marathons in seven days on seven continents. She died on 20 February 2004, aged 56. Bothie (dog) Bothie , also known as Bothie the Polar Dog , was a long-haired Jack Russell Terrier who

63-721: A plan to circumnavigate the world along its polar axis, and ten years later her Transglobe Expedition team became the first to reach both poles, to cross Antarctica and the Arctic Ocean, through the North West Passage . In 2020 the Government of the British Antarctic Territory honoured the contribution she made to "furthering the understanding, protection and management of Antarctica" by naming Mount Fiennes . In 1984 she released

84-582: A relatively simple overland trip through France and Spain, then across West Africa through the Sahara . They boarded the ship the Benjamin Bowring in the Gulf of Guinea and travelled by sea to South Africa. After preparations in South Africa, they sailed for Antarctica on 22 December 1979, and arrived on 4 January 1980. With help from Ginny Fiennes and Giles Kershaw, they built a base camp near

105-480: Is a registered UK charity and has supported a number of projects including Ed Stafford's 2010 expedition to walk the length of the Amazon River , and survey of the endangered Bactrian camel . Ginny Fiennes Virginia Frances, Lady Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes ( née Pepper ; 9 July 1947 – 20 February 2004), known as Ginny Fiennes , was an English explorer . She was the first woman to be awarded

126-603: The Northwest Passage Ranulph Fiennes and Charles Burton made the trip to the North Pole by powered sledges arriving 10 April 1982, before signalling to base camp that they had arrived. To celebrate their achievement, a Twin Otter aircraft was sent out to deliver the two men supplies, including champagne, as well as Bothie. At this point Bothie became the first dog to ever "set paw on both

147-838: The Polar Medal , and the first woman to be voted in to join the Antarctic Club in recognition of her research work for the British Antarctic Survey and University of Sheffield into very low frequency radio propagation. Her husband was adventurer Ranulph Fiennes . She was born Virginia Frances Pepper in Godalming , Surrey in 1947. Her family owned chalk quarries in Amberley on the South Downs: now Amberley Museum & Heritage Centre . When she

168-709: The SANAE III base. They named the base camp Ryvingen, after the nearby Ryvingen Peak . Burton, Shepard, Ranulph Fiennes, and Ginny Fiennes (and their dog Bothie ) remained at this base all winter, in four cardboard huts which quickly became buried in the snow. On 29 August 1980, Ranulph Fiennes left with Burton and Shephard for the South Pole. They travelled by snowmobiles, pulling sledges with supplies, while Kershaw flew ahead to leave fuel depots for them. As they travelled, they took 2-meter snow samples , one of many scientific undertakings that convinced sponsors to support

189-546: The South and North poles". During the three-year expedition, Bothie was considered by members of the team as "a friend and welcome distraction to everyone", bringing a "sense of home and normality" to the venture. Upon return to Great Britain , following a six-month anti- rabies quarantine , Bothie achieved a level of celebrity including featuring on the Blue Peter TV programme, being voted Great Britain's Pet of

210-723: The South coast of Victoria and King William Islands, North, via Franklin Strait and Peel Sound , to Resolute Bay (on the southern side of Cornwallis Island ), around the South and East coasts of Devon Island , through Hell Gate (near Cardigan Strait ) and across Norwegian Bay to Eureka , Greely Bay and the head of Tanquary Fiord . Between Tuktoyaktuk and Tanquary Fiord, they traveled at an average speed of around 80 miles (70 nmi; 130 km) per day. Once they reached Tanquary Fiord they had to trek 150 miles (130 nmi; 240 km) overland, via Lake Hazen , to Alert , before setting up their winter base camp. The journey

231-530: The Year and presented a prize at Crufts in 1983, inspiring a soft-toy range, and entry into the Guinness Book of Pet Records . In 1984, Ranulph and Ginny Fiennes released a best-selling book on his adventures called Bothie The Polar Dog . Following his return, Bothie retired from polar exploration aged 7 years. No other canine is expected to match Bothie's achievement of visiting both poles after

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252-523: The completion of the voyage Ranulph and Ginny Fiennes released a book about the adventures of their dog Bothie , a Jack Russell terrier, who became the only dog to ever visit both the North and South poles. Called Bothie The Polar Dog , the book was published in 1984 and was reported to be a best-seller. Following the expedition, in 1993 a charitable trust was established to support other expeditions with humanitarian, scientific or educational goals. The trust

273-504: The continent, and spending six weeks at the pole. During this period Bothie participated in the first cricket match ever held at the South Pole. To help him with the cold temperatures Bothie was kitted with tailor-made red coat, balaclava facemask, and boots, though he was said to consider these as "seldom needed". From Antarctica the team sailed north on the MV Benjamin Bowring to Canada . After travelling through

294-579: The expedition, Fiennes and Burton completed the Northwest Passage . They left Tuktoyaktuk on 26 July 1981, in a 18 ft open Boston Whaler motorboat and reached Tanquary Fiord , 36 days later, on 31 August 1981. Their journey was the first open boat transit of the Northwest Passage from West to East, and covered around 3,000 miles (2,600 nautical miles; 4,800 kilometres), taking a route through Dolphin and Union Strait following

315-543: The first ascent of the longest river in the world, the River Nile , by prototype hovercraft . In 1971, she organised the first transnavigation of British Columbia , entirely by river. In 1972, she was commissioned by Woman's Own magazine to live for two months with an Omani family, and later organised four expeditions with her husband to locate the lost frankincense city of Ubar in Dhofar . In 1972, she devised

336-412: The non-fiction book Bothie the Polar Dog . Co-authored with her husband, Sir Ranulph Fiennes, it describes the adventures of her Jack Russell Terrier named Bothie who was the "only dog ever to set paw on both the South and North poles". In the 1980s, she moved to Exmoor National Park and began to raise a herd of pedigree Aberdeen Angus cattle and a flock of black Welsh Mountain sheep , becoming

357-600: The trip. They reached the South Pole on 15 December 1980. They remained in a small camp next to the South Pole station dome , where they played the first game of cricket at the South Pole, and departed on 23 December 1980. They descended the Scott Glacier (the third party to do so), crossed the Ross Ice Shelf , and arrived at Scott Base on 11 January 1981, completing their Antarctic crossing. As part of

378-678: Was 9, she met the 12-year-old Ranulph Fiennes, her future husband, and they married in 1970. After school, she took up deep-sea diving and was recruited to work for two years in Wester Ross for the National Trust for Scotland . She was also trained at the Royal Aircraft Establishment , Farnborough, took marine radio officer courses and joined the Women's Royal Army Corps Territorials . In 1968, she organised

399-647: Was conceived by Ginny Fiennes and led by her husband Ranulph Fiennes . Bothie, a stray long-haired brown-and-white Jack Russell Terrier, was given to the Fiennes couple in 1977, two years before the expedition. He was flown to join the Transglobe crew following the Africa segment, which was considered too hot for him. Bothie accompanied Ginny Fiennes throughout the rest of the expedition. This included enduring an Antarctic winter during his nine-month stay on

420-649: Was recorded in a book by Fiennes, To the Ends of the Earth: The Transglobe Expedition, The First Pole-to-Pole Circumnavigation of the Globe (1983). It was also the subject of a 1983 film, also titled To the Ends of the Earth , made by director William Kronick and featuring actor Richard Burton as the narrator. The trip was also recorded in the 1997 Guinness Book of World Records . Following

441-479: Was the only dog to travel to both the South and North Poles. Bothie was owned by Ranulph Fiennes and Ginny Fiennes and accompanied the team on the circumpolar Transglobe Expedition from 1979 to 1982. The Transglobe Expedition (1979–1982) was the first successful longitudinal (north–south) circumnavigation of the Earth using only surface transport, traversing both the South and North Poles. The expedition

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