It is December 31, 1999. The last seconds to midnight are ticking away. At least they are on the International Date Line, the first part of the world to enter each new day, and you are standing at one end of it - at the South Pole.
Television cameras beam your every move live into hundreds of millions of homes around the globe where, as they dress up for the biggest night of the century, viewers are watching you become the first on Earth to step into what most of them will be celebrating as the new millennium.
Only at the Antarctic does the International Date Line, which runs down the middle of the Pacific, cross land, albeit land covered in ice.
For you it is the end of a trek that began nine months ago and 20,004 kilometres away at the other end of the International Date Line - the North Pole - with impressive humanitarian and environmental projects along the way.
This is the vision of British-born explorer Martyn Williams, and he wants a young Hong Konger to be a part of it. One of 12 hand-picked youths from around the globe, he or she will represent China. The others will come from Japan, North and South America, Europe, Africa, and Australia.
'Looking at the number of cities they will travel through, and interest from newspapers and television as they will be the first into the new millennium, we expect a billion people will become aware of their journey,' Mr Williams said.
