NATION IN BRIEF : MINNESOTA : Antarctic Explorers Reach South Pole

A six-man international ski and sled dog team led by Will Steger reached the South Pole, marking a major milestone in the first unmechanized transverse of Antarctica ever attempted. “Here we are. Horrah,” read a misspelled satellite message sent by the team, a spokeswoman at the expedition’s St. Paul, Minn., headquarters said. American scientists at the Scott-Amundsen Scientific Research Base at the South Pole gave the adventurers a tour of the dome station, the spokeswoman said. Still ahead on the 4,000-mile trip is the Area of Inaccessibility, an 850-mile void of ice where neither radio nor airplane contact is guaranteed.