Lenin statue found out in the cold

At the geographic centre of Antarctica - one of the world's most inhospitable spots - Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin stares out over a frozen wasteland.

A British and Canadian team who last month became the first to reach the Pole of Inaccessibility on foot were surprised to find a bust of Lenin still visible at a Soviet base that was abandoned almost 50 years ago.

"It was slightly yellow, but not a bit of snow on him," Henry Cookson, a British member of the team, told Associated Press radio.