Thirty years ago, The North Face outfitted a team of six explorers hailing from the US, the United Kingdom, China, France, the Soviet Union, and Japan for the first dogsled crossing of Antarctica. It took the crew (and their 36 dogs) roughly seven months to traverse the full 3,741-mile stretch of ice, a journey that entailed temperatures as low as 100 below zero and a storm that lasted 50 days. But the slog proved worthwhile—it brought early attention to climate change and helped keep the Antarctic Treaty intact.
Decades later, it's also giving outerwear addicts something to obsess over via The North Face's reintroduction of the iconic Trans-Antarctica Collection.
