"Undertaking what was once called 'the last possible land journey on earth', Arved Fuchs and Reinhold Messner completed a dramatic traverse of the Antarctic continent in February 1990, after a 92-day, 2,800-kilometre trek on foot. Through temperatures of minus 40 degrees C, and blizzards of up to 150 kilometres an hour, they journeyed across the Thiel mountains to the South Pole, and from there to McMurdo Sound on the Ross Sea. A remarkable story of hardship, courage and determination, this is Messner's account of yet another incredible adventure in a life which has already known so many." * About Reinhold Messner

Cooking

MSR-Cooker (1/4-litre fuel tank) with cover
Petrol can (lots), spare pumps
3 pots (coffee - 1 1/4 litre; cooking - 2/1/2 litre; water - 3 litre)
Pocket lighters (2-3)
Plywood sheet 30x40cm (to place under cooking area)
Toilet paper for cleaning, etc.; tissues (1 roll per person per week)
Plastic mug
Aluminium plate?
Spoon
Pocket-knife
Ladle
Brush

Clothing

Paper underpants (3 per week)
Normal underpants (4 per month)
Net underwear 1x
Pile suit (two-part) 1x
Thin underwear 1x
Anorak with wolf fur (Goretex)
Overtrousers (not bib type) (Goretex) 1x
Balaclava - pile cap 1x
Mask - glasses 1x
Ordinary glasses 1x
Stocking (1 pair per week)
Fingerless gloves
Arctic gloves 2x
Intermediate gloves 1x
Boots with inner boot 1x
Downjacket with vapour barrier (only North Pole)
Neopren stockings (1 pair)

General Equipment

Tent
2x mats
1x Thermos (I litre)
1x sleeping-bag
1x piss pot
1x sledge (+mat)
2x Magellan (GPS)
Maps
Skis with skins
Light ski sticks
Shovel
1 spare ski each
Medicine (plasters, stripping)
1x Argos?
Crampons
Ice-axe
Diary
1x recorder with micro/earphone
1 book per person
Spirits (I litre per month)

Food

Coffee (real)
Biscuits (3 packets per person)
Bacon and hard bread
Parmesan cheese (in plastic)
Carbohydrate breakfast
Hazelnuts (2 per person)
Vitamin C bars
Dried bananas
Dried fruit and nuts
Fruit slices
Soup (in plastic) (tomato vegetable)
Tea
Freeze-dried food (rice, noodles, potato")
Pemmican
Olive oil (in plastic)
Butter (in plastic)
Noodles + puree + rice (ready mixed)
Chocolate

Luxuries

Selection of spices and herbs
Whisky
Fishermens