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Hell bent for the Pole 160 p. : col. ill., col. maps. Includes index. n the week before Christmas, 1957, most of the world's media seemed totally fascinated with what they gleefully dubbed 'the race to the South Pole' between the leaders of the two field parties making up the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition: the United Kingdom's Dr. VIvian Fuchs (later knighted, after the successful completion of the expedition) and New Zealand's Sir Edmund Hillary, who had recently conquered Mount Everest. This is their story and that of the expedition, it's planning and execution.