“Pole to Pole EV” expedition: Scottish couple Chris & Julie Ramsay drove an all-electric Nissan Ariya e-4ORCE (heavily modified by Arctic Trucks in Iceland) from the 1823 magnetic north pole to the geographic South Pole, en route creating a Guinness World Record. Arctic Trucks Polar supported the expedition in both the Arctic and Antarctica with two Arctic Trucks AT44 Toyota Hilux 4x4s plus support crew.
The motorcycle manufacturer, Royal Enfield, took two “Himalayan” motorcycles to the South Pole, starting with extensive testing with Arctic Trucks Polar in Iceland. Entering Antarctica at Novolazarevskaya, Eastern Antarctica (Covid caused huge replanning), the ATP support team drove the Royal Enfield riders and their media crew across Antarctica to the more rideable terrain above the Ross Ice Shelf. From there the bikes travelled to the South Pole. Arctic Trucks Polar supported the entire effort with two Arctic Trucks AT44 Toyota Hilux 6x6 vehicles and support crew.
Four Arctic Trucks vehicles, one specially-converted AT38 Hyundai Santa Fe 4x4, two AT44 Toyota Hilux 6x6 and one AT44 Toyota Hilux undertook a 5,800km return drive from Union Glacier, at the foot of the Antastctic Peninsula, to McMurdo Station via the South Pole. The expedition was created by the great grandson of Ernest Shackleton, Patrick Bergel, completing what his great grandfather started over 100 years ago by achieving the first crossing of Antarctica by car. After visiting Shackleton‘s Discovery Hut the team returned the same way back to Union, also creating the first car crossing of the Ross iceshelf itself.
Two Arctic Trucks AT44 Hilux 6x6 vehicles supported a Brazilian scientific research team. ATP‘s crew ran the support logistics for a team of scientists, commencing from Union Glacier and driving a circular route covering some 1,700 km, to drill and collect snow and compacted ice samples in Ellsworth land.
November 2014, Antarctica. "Antarctica2" expedition. Two Arctic Trucks AT44 Toyota Hilux 6x6 vehicles and guide/support personnel supported Mano Ossevoort (also known as "the Tractor Girl") driving a Massey Ferguson tractor from the Fimbul iceshelf, near Novolazarevskaya Station in East Antarctica, to the South Pole and back.
Arctic Trucks Polar‘s AT44 Toyota Hilux 6x6 vehicle and crew took drove the Willis Resilience Expedition team of Parker Liautaud & Doug Stoup, together with film and support team, from Union Glacier to the Ross Iceshelf on the Amundsen coast. The crew then followed and filmed Parker and Doug as they skied unsupported to South Pole in 21 days, the fastest skiing time from the Antarctic coast to the South Pole (although data collection regarding the climactic conditions in Antarctica was a primary motivator for the expedition.
Four Arctic Trucks Toyota Hilux AT44 vehicles – two 4x4 and two 6x6 - supported an expedition for three teams of wounded soldiers to ski the last 3 degrees to the South Pole. The support team drove the vehicles 2000 km from the coast of East Antarctica and set up a runway for the ski airplane bringing in the ski teams. The event, organised by the well-known charity Walking With The Wounded, was supported by UK’s Prince Harry and aimed to raise money while demonstrating the capabilities of injured veterans.
Two Arctic Trucks AT44 Toyota Hilux 4x4 vehicles with Arctic Trucks Polar support personnel guided/supported a team from Kazakhstan and Iceland from Novolazarevskaya, Eastern Antarctica, to the South Pole and back. The expedition to South Pole, 2308 km took only 4.5 days. Following their trail back, the return journey from South Pole to Novo runway took only 3.5 days, averaging 660 km per day.
Expedition to the historic Magnetic North Pole with BBC’s original Top Gear team of Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May. The team took three Arctic Trucks AT38 model vehicles (two Toyota Hilux AT38s and one Toyota Land Cruiser AT38) and drove from Resolute, Nunavut, Canada, to the 1996 Magnetic North Pole. This was the first and only time a car has been driven on this route.
