Giving Roald Amundsen a run for his money, what South Korean explorer was the first to reach the Five Poles?

Korean mountaineer and explorer Hong Sung Taek, is famous for having reached the "Five Poles" – i.e., the North and South Poles, Greenland, Everest, and the Bering Strait. He walked to the North Pole, skied to the South, took a dog sled across Greenland, walked across the Bering Strait and, of course, climbed Everest.

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