In Antarctic exploration, there was a time called Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroic_Age_of_Antarctic_Explor...

People attempted to use dog sleds to traverse up the antarctic plateau, which is nearly the same altitude as Tibet, and reach the pole.

Many died in the process, their names are remembered (though slid out of public discourse as its over a century ago).

In our industry fortunately people don't die, but trailblazer had to do a similar thing - they used the proverbial dog sleds to build a camp in the middle of antarctic plateau.