Pole To Pole With Michael Palin (1992)
BBC

Description

Michael Palin's second challenge is to travel from the North to the South Pole, by land and sea. The crossing is varied and frequently gruelling, passing through Russia days before the abortive Gorbachev coup, then on through Turkey, Egypt, Sudan and South Africa, hopefully arriving in time to catch the only ship from Africa to Antarctica.

Tags

Travel, Adventure

Collected reviews and ratings

10 Amazon (UK) user reviews

With curiosity, courage and his standard aplomb, Palin plunges himself into the local cultures, beating himself with birch branches in a Finnish sauna and wallowing in mud in an Odessa sanatorium. It all makes for an armchair traveller's delight.
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9.2 Entertainment Weekly | Michael Sauter

All in all, it's probably the best time you could have on somebody else's adventure.
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8.0 DVD Talk | Stuart Galbraith IV

Palin is a good sport throughout, very open to try new (and often unsavory-looking) things and roughing it, whether it's battling an onslaught of mosquitoes in Africa or going to the bathroom in an open-air igloo in the bitterly-cold Antarctic. If he ever lost his cool during those five months, the audience never sees it.
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7.0 PopMatters.com | Stuart Henderson

There is little doubt that Palin makes for a wonderful travel companion. He is affable and quite happy to embarrass himself in the pursuit of adventure and experience.
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7.0 MovieFreak.com | Richard Scott

.. it turns out that he chose a good time to travel; his trip, taking place over the second half of 1991, occurred just before or after major political shake-ups in the Soviet Union and South Africa, as well as several other African countries, which helps add an interesting flavor to it all.
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