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South Pole Tent and Sun Damage

American Alpine Institute
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One of our guides who now lives in France dropped off this tent that he took from the South Pole in the mid-nineties. It had been left abandoned for five years.

It’s interesting to see how seriously the sun damaged the tent.

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