Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  He mahi i whakaarohia e te tokomaha he mea e kore e taea, me nga whakamatau o mua i mutu i roto i nga mate me te kore. Engari i te tau 1958, ko Vivian Bunny Fuch, i ārahi angitu i tētahi kapa Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition ki te whakaoti i te whakawhiti whenua tuatahi o Antarctica mā te Pou Tonga. Ko George Lowe tētahi o te rōpū toa, he matamua o Everest, nāna i tuhi te mahi whakamiharo, ā, ko ana whakaahua e tuku ana i tētahi tirohanga whakamīharo ki tētahi o ngā tūhura nui rawa o te rau tau 20. Ko te Crossing of Antarctica, na George Lowe raua ko Huw Lewis-Jones, e whakanui ana i nga whakatutukitanga o te roopu Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition o te 1957/1958. I uru atu a Edmund Hillary ki te kapa mō ngā wāhanga whakamutunga o te whakawhiti. I konei, ka rewa a Ed rāua ko Bunny i tētahi wāhanga hukapapa i roto i tō rātau teneti hei hanga i te tī. 'I mahue a Magga Dan i a mātau i te mutunga o Hanuere 1957. I muri i te ra nui o te tuhituhi i ngā reta whakamutunga ki te kāinga, ka haere mātou ki raro ki te pae hukapapa ki te whakatere i a ia. Kaore matou i pouri i te mea kaore matou i mahue; engari ko ta matou haerenga pono i timata noa. I huri o mātou whakaaro ki ngā wero nui i mua i a mātou ki te whakaū i tō mātou ara ki waho - 2,000 maero puta noa i te whenua' Ahakoa kāore i rite ki te aroha ki te tirohanga i rite ki a ia ki Everest, i hopu a Lowe i ngā whakaahua mīharo o te haerenga nui, engari i mate i te wā i hangaia ai te pukapuka i tuhia e ia me Huw Lewis-Jones, The Crossing of Antarctica. I tae atu te roopu haerenga ki Antarctica i te Whiringa-a-rangi 1955, i reira i whakapau tata ai ki te rua tau ki te hanga i nga puni turanga i te whenua. I mahue a Fuchs me etahi atu tangata 11 i te puni turanga i te waahanga o Aotearoa o Antarctic i te mutunga o Noema 1957, ka tiimata te whakawhiti whenua. I haere atu ano tētahi rōpū i te taha atu o te whenua, i raro i te ārahitanga o te kaitirotiro a Sir Edmund Hillary. 'Kei te mutunga te pō roa o Antarctic, ā, kei te whakarerekē te pōuri ki ngā wiki pōuri. I te wa e keri ana i te waka rererangi, kua tae ki te wa ki te whakarite i nga mea katoa mo te haerenga roa. I raru te kapa i nga ahuatanga kino penei i te hukarere i runga i te tuanui o to raatau whare noho. I āwhina te hukarere ki te...
I arahi a Vivian Fuch i tana roopu kairangahau i runga i te haerenga whenua ki Antactica ma te Pou Tonga. Ko te mema o te roopu a George Lowe, i whakaputa i ana whakaahua i roto i te pukapuka mo te miihana, Ko te Whakawhiti o Antarctica. Ko ngā pikitia whakamiharo e whakaatu ana i te oranga i tētahi o ngā āhuarangi tino pakeke o te ao.