article_snippet: But in 1958, Vivian ‘Bunny’ Fuch, successfully led a Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition team to complete the first ever overland crossing of Antarctica via the South Pole.
article_snippet: Edmund Hillary joined the 1957/1958 Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition team for the final stages of the crossing.
article_snippet: The expedition team arrived in Antarctica in November 1955, where The expedition team spent nearly two years building base camps on a continent.
article_snippet: Fuchs and 11 other men left a base camp on the New Zealand sector of the Antarctic in late November 1957, and began the overland crossing.
article_snippet: A further party set off from the other side of a continent, under the leadership of explorer Sir Edmund Hillary. '
article_snippet: Fuchs team arrived at the pole on January 19, 1958, where the two forces united to push on to Scott Base Camp, where explorer Sir Edmund Hillary's party had started.
article_snippet: Fuchs and 11 other men left a base camp on the New Zealand sector of the Antarctic in late November 1957 and began the overland crossing, and would eventually arrive at the pole on January 19, 1958 .
highlights_snippet: Vivian Fuch led Vivian Fuch team of explorers on an overland expedition of Antactica via the South Pole .
  Team member George Lowe, released Vivian Fuch  photographs in a book on the mission, The Crossing of Antarctica .
  