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About Don and Margie McIntyre
Don and Margie McIntyre aren't your average middle-aged married couple. For the past 20 years or more, the pursuit of the ultimate adventure has been their full-time occupation. Known as Australia’s “Antarctic couple”, Don and Margie spent a year living together alone living at the windiest place on earth, Commonwealth Bay, Antarctica.
Camped in their small survival hut measuring 2.4m by 3.6m, alone and isolated with only each other for company they withstood temperatures of up to minus 32 degrees Celsius, wind gusts of 150 knots and total darkness for three months during winter.
Margie, a Queenslander, had only seen snow twice before she agreed to spend a year with her husband, Don, in Antarctica. Don and Margie McIntyre are two sides of a coin: they have their differences but together they make a formidable team.
Their year in Antarctica was a study in grit and determination. It was a grand adventure in the grandest of places, a triumph of teamwork, organisation and the determination to fulfil a shared dream.
“We didn’t have a single fight all year - just what we’d term two ‘debates’. That’s pretty incredible considering we were never more than 100 metres apart.
We really had to support each other to survive so that meant we had to become closer”. Don and Margie have since written the book “Two Below Zero” and have achieved many awards and accolades for their work in the Antarctic.
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