A 16-year-old boy from Bristol has set a new record by becoming the youngest person to trek to the South Pole.
Lewis Clarke spent 48 days at temperatures as low as -50 Celsius and winds of up to 193km per hour.
He arrived at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station at 18:00 GMT after completing the gruelling 702-mile journey from the Antarctic coast.
He will now be submitting evidence to Guinness World Records so his claim can be officially verified.
On his arrival, Lewis Clarke said: "I'm really happy but mostly relieved that for the first time in 48 days I don't have to get up tomorrow and drag my sled for nine hours in the snow and icy wind.
"Today was really hard, the closer I got to the Pole the slower I went, my legs had had enough.
"But now I'm here and I've had some spaghetti bolognaise and I am sitting in a heated tent."
Speaking earlier in the day when his son was still about 10 miles from the Pole, his father Steven said Saturday's weather had been the "worst yet".
The 16-year-old is hoping to have broken the record for the same coast-to-pole route taken by Sarah McNair Landry from Canada in 2005, when she was aged 18.
