PECS - Polar Expeditions Classification Scheme

Lodge a Record Journey Intention

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Verification

If you are intending to complete a journey that will set or surpass a record you must record all details pertaining to your record claim.

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Start, end, duration, distance, daily camp locations etc. must be recorded either on a device or remotely, and should be verifiable by a third party.

You may be asked to provide a GPX file, photocopy of your written log, photos and video identifying milestones (start, end and significant midway points, GPS screenshots).

Kite and sail journeys should submit their tracker file.

Speed records

A speed record claim must be:

1. a faster repeat of a journey with same margins, route, distance and mode of travel, or..

2. an original journey that has been repeated in a slower time

The original and repeated journeys must be same gender but can be awarded as fastest ‘person’ if fastest overall

A speed record is measured using elapsed time between start and end eg. 47 days, 3 hours, 48 minutes

The original and repeated journeys must be Unsupported

Minor alterations to margins are permitted provided they are not selected expressly to gain a distance advantage

Age records

An age record (eg. youngest female) requires you to verify your route, age and end date/time.

Illegal journeys

Any journey that is illegal, unauthorised, environmentally reckless or unnecessarily endangers the lives of others will not be recognised by PECS

CLAIMANT DETAILS

EXPEDITION LEADER / PRIMARY ORGANISER

Name

dd/mm/yyyy

OTHER PARTICIPANTS

List all expedition members
FIRST NAMELAST NAMENATIONALITYDATE OF BIRTHAGE (at completion of journey)GENDERSELF-DESCRIBE gender
Will you be solo? *

DETAILS OF PROPOSED JOURNEY

eg. Fortitude South Pole Expedition

Use the Create Your Label generator if you don’t know your PECS label

eg. Hercules Inlet, or coordinates using DDM (Degrees Decimal Minutes)

eg. Point 660, or coordinates using DDM (Degrees Decimal Minutes)

eg. Dye 2, Axel Heiberg Glacier.

Estimated start *
date
Estimated end *
date
What will be the predicted duration of your journey? *
days
Will you place any self-laid caches that will be collected during a return component of your journey? *

Upload your file (maximum of 10, total 40mb)

What will be your mode of travel? You can select multiple *
Will you benefit from any of the following between the start and end of your journey? *
Will the journey be guided? *

RECORD CLAIM. What will you do?

Record Category (you can select multiple)

Example: First female to ski solo to the North Pole

Give relevant details of any previous record holder/s eg. expedition name, year, participants, age, record etc.

Include any details not listed above

Notify Guinness World Records? *

(maximum of 10, total 40mb)

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