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IN SEPTEMBER, serial adventurer Mike Horn, 48, will weigh anchor on one of the world’s last undone firsts: a motorless circumnavigation of the earth via the two poles. True to form for Horn, who walked to the North Pole in 2006 in winter, the expedition is daunting. He will sail a 105-foot reinforced ketch, the Pangaea, south from Monaco to South Africa, where he’ll pick up a fourperson crew for the leg to Antarctica. There Horn will disembark, with a pair of skis and a 450-pound sledge, to shuffle 3,600 miles across the continent, negotiating mountains nearly 11,000 feet high. (Sir Ranulph Fiennes and Charles Burton made the crossing on snowmobiles during their 1979 to 1982 motored circumpolar navigation.)
Once reunited on the opposite coast, Horn and company will…