Dear friends, Since about a year ago, the *Societat Catalana de Gnomònica* has been actively working on the SUSIE Project (Sundial on the Southernmost Ices on Earth). It was born with the intention of placing a sundial that could show the time for the first time in history, at the exact geographic South Pole. In other words, we wanted to put into reality the wish to calculate and design a sundial for the most austral latitude of the planet; and our society member Xavier Valbuena would be the carrier.
This could only be possible through a unique expedition, which has been organized during the last two years. For the first time in history, a group of persons with different physical disabilities would try to reach the South Pole, advancing with their own means, through one of the areas most remote, cold, windy and dangerous of our planet: The Antarctica, with a basic objective: TO DEMOSTRATE TO THE WORLD THE GREAT ABILITY OF THE DISABLED PEOPLE. This expedition combines together a great multiple challenge: social, educational, sportive, and scientific, that includes the carrier of the tailor-made sundial designed by the SCG. The last information we did receive yesterday is that through air transportation the members of the expedition have reach the 88ºS and have just started advancing by foot to the target location of 90ºS. You will find more detailed information with a continuous updating of the expedition at the following web links: www.polsudsenselimits.org/ www.gnomonica.cat Best regards Conxita Bou SCG Secretary
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