Michael Palin is the author of many best-selling books, artist, screenwriter, documentarian, and famous traveler. Palin and his fellow BBC crew members have repeatedly surprised viewers and readers with the breadth and boldness of their ideas. One day they decided to walk (drive, swim, fly) from the North Pole to the South Pole, from the “top” of the world to its “bottom”. And they succeeded! Brave and inquisitive travelers laid out their route mainly along the 30th meridian; between the Arctic and Antarctic they had to overcome significant territories of Northern and Eastern Europe, Western Asia, vast expanses of all of East Africa, and “for dessert” another “piece” of South America. Greenland and Spitsbergen, Norwegian Lapland, Finland, Estonia, north-west Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, the islands of Rhodes and Cyprus, Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Chile - such an incredible journey will remain in his memory members for life.