South Pole Flight
December 27, 2024 - January 4, 2025
$40,495
Note: The South Pole Flight dovetails with your Vinson climb – Team 1. If you would like to do both, your expedition would run from December 15, 2024 – January 4, 2025.
Following your team climb on Vinson (Team 1), celebrate your summit with a once-in-a-lifetime flight to the South Pole, where all 360 lines of longitude meet. In just a few steps, you can walk around the world!
Please note: This experience does NOT include an overnight stay.
All prices are in US Dollars.
CTSS requires clients to buy trip insurance for all expeditions. Please see our page on trip insurance and cancellation policy for more information.
All payments once submitted are non-refundable and non-transferable. If balances are not received by specified dates, the client forfeits their place on the program and any prior fees paid.
Note: This itinerary reflects the Vinson expedition (Team 1) plus the South Pole Flight.
- Day 1: Arrive in Punta Arenas, Chile
- Day 2: Breakfast, gear checks, expedition briefing
- Day 3: Luggage check-in
- Day 4: Fly to Union Glacier, Antarctica
- Day 5: Fly from Union Glacier to Vinson Base Camp
- Day 6: Carry to Low Camp
- Day 7: Move to Low Camp
- Day 8: Carry to High Camp
- Day 9: Rest day
- Day 10: Move to High Camp
- Day 11: Summit Vinson and descend to High Camp
- Day 12: Descend to Vinson Base Camp
- Day 13: Fly to Union Glacier, Antarctica
- Day 14: Contingency day
- Day 15: Gear checks and briefing at Union Glacier, Antarctica
- Day 16 -19: Relax and explore until the weather allows for an overnight trip to the South Pole
- Day 20: Scheduled flight from Antarctica to Punta Arenas, Chile
- Day 21: Fly Home
- Day 22: Contingency day
- Day 23: Contingency day
Our expeditions are designed to be fully inclusive, except for some services/items of a personal nature like flights, gear, insurance. Here’s a detailed list so you know what to expect
Included:
- Professional Antarctic guides and lecturer
- Flights to and from Punta Arenas, Chile, to Union Glacier, Antarctica
- Flights to and from Union Glacier, Antarctica, to the South Pole
- Checked luggage up to 55 lbs (25 kg) to Antarctica
- Accommodation at Union Glacier Camp and during the expedition
- All expedition food on the expedition, including breakfast, dinner, snacks, and hot drinks
- All team gear, including four-season tents, cooking gear, group duffels, stoves, etc.
- Satellite phone to update the CTSS blog and available to clientele at $3/min
Excluded:
- Flights to and from Punta Arenas, Chile
- Transportation from and to the airport in Punta Arenas
- All meals in Punta Arenas, Chile, and specialty expedition lunch food
- Hotel in Punta Arenas, Chile, if not doing Vinson before
- Luggage over 55 lbs (25 kg) to Antarctica
- All personal climbing gear is the responsibility of the client
- In the event of a rescue, evacuation, or early departure from the group, the client is responsible for any rescue expenses incurred or excess expenses above and beyond our normal trip costs, including transport, hotels, evacuation, flight changes, and gear shipping.
- Guide tips (customary but optional)
- Costs incurred as a result of events beyond the control of CTSS above and beyond the normal expedition costs
- Required trip insurance policy (for trip cancellation, interruption, rescue & evacuation, medical treatment, repatriation, etc.)
