Toyota Hilux

Toyota Hilux Goes To Antartica - Click above for high resolution picture gallery

The Toyota Hilux is already renowned for its capacity to overcome any extreme challenge, from driving to the North Pole to conquering the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull. Now, the Hilux has successfully completed yet another extraordinary journey, traveling across the coldest, most hostile environment in the world, Antarctica, to reach the South Pole. Between 10th November and 5th December 2010, four Hilux transported expedition members of the Indian National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research (NCAOR), studying snow chemistry, the glacial landscapes and the bedrock hidden beneath the ice on a 4,600 km round trip from Novo Air Base, to the South Pole, and safely back. [click to continue…]

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