Athletes crossing the Hardangervidda Mountainplateau during the Expedition Amundsen 2013.

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Athletes crossing the Hardangervidda Mountainplateau during the Expedition Amundsen 2013. The race is said to be the hardest skirace in the world, 100km, 40kg sled in the path of the famous explorer Roald Amundsen. Amundsen never managed to cross the plateau during his preparations for the South Pole.

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Location: Hardangervidda, Norway
Photo credit: © Kai-Otto Melau / Alamy / Afripics
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