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Fastest time trial in 1080° Avalanche (GameCube)

The quickest run achieved in Time Trial mode on 1080° Avalanche (Nintendo, 2003) is 40.38 seconds, set by Andrew “MrMiyagi” Nguyen (Australia) on 4 October 2006. Andrew beat the previous best of 40.48 seconds, set by Italian Andrea “Turtle7” Schiappacasse, using character Rob Haywood on the TenderFoot Pass course. Featured in Guinness World Records Gamer”s Edition 2010

Fastest transistor

In 2007 Northrop Grumman (US), a company specialised in in aerospace, electronics, information systems, shipbuilding and technical services, announced they had created a transistor with an operating frequency of over 1,000 gigahertz.

Fastest trek to the North Pole

The fastest trek to the North Pole was 41 days 18 hours and 52 minutes and was achieved by David J.P. Pierce Jones (UK), Richard Weber (Canada), Tessum Weber (Canada) and Howard Fairbanks (South Africa) from 3 March to 14 April 2010. The team set out on 3 April from 82° 58′ 02″ N and 77° 23′ 3″ W and were picked up after reaching the North Pole, 90° N, on 14 April 2010. The total trek distance was 785 km (487.78 mi). They had Continue reading →

Fastest unsupported (kite assisted) journey to the South Pole

The fastest unpowered journey to the South Pole was made my Børge Ousland (Norway), who travelled on skis with assistance from a parafoil kite, in 34 days from 15 November to 19 December 1996. The journey was solo and unsupported, meaning he received no outside assistance. Note: This text is identical to the record for the Fastest solo unsupported (kite assisted) journey to the South Pole.