21-year-old Norwegian Karen Kyllesö has become the youngest person to reach the South Pole solo on skis. On Tuesday evening (January 14, 2025), exactly on the 114th anniversary of Roald Amundsen’s reaching the South Pole, the Norwegian broke the record held by Frenchman Pierre Hedan, who, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, reached the South Pole alone in 2024, at the age of 26. 

The Norwegian woman, who is 1.52 meters tall and weighs 48 kg, covered 1130 km on skis in 54 days in Antarctica, pulling a sled weighing about 100 kg, or twice her weight. The temperature at the time was -25°C. 

Karen Kyllesö planned to cover the distance to the South Pole in 60 days. She accomplished her journey in 6 days less time, walking an average of 30 kilometers per day. She took the route by which another Norwegian woman, Liv Arnesen, 41 years old at the time, reached the South Pole alone in 1994.