Prince Harry will be racing to the South Pole with a team of wounded servicemen and women. The 28-year-old British royal is set to take part in a race to show his support for the people who risked their lives for the United States, the UK, and the Commonwealth.

The race, dubbed the South Pole Allied Challenge 2013, will pit three teams of wounded servicemen and women against each other as they embark on a race across 3 degrees to the South Pole. The three teams will come from the U.S., the UK, and the combined team from the Commonwealth nations of Australia and Canada.

It aims to "show the world the extraordinary courage and determination of the men and women who have been wounded while serving our countries, and to remind us all of the help and support we owe them."

They will fly to Antarctica in November, aiming to reach the South Pole around December 17.

"The format may be different, the scale certainly is, but the aim remains the same - to enable our wounded to do what they and all other servicemen and women do better than anyone else I know - meet a challenge head-on and overcome it and inspire others to do the same," Prince Harry said during the charity's conference.

"That they should once again step into the breach, this time facing down the extreme physical and mental challenges of trekking to the South Pole, just underlines their remarkable qualities.

"So what are these qualities? They are courage, to be sure, physical strength, endurance, a sense of comradeship, absolutely. But there's something else, something deeper than that. Something that continues to draw me back to this charity and these people time and again and always will. It's toughness of mind. An unquenchable spirit that simply refuses to say, 'I am beaten.'"

This isn't the first time the royal bachelor went to extremes to show his support for the foundation. In 2011, he trekked to the Arctic with a team of disabled veterans from the UK. He withdrew early, though, to attend the wedding of his brother, Prince William, to Kate Middleton.

He missed out on the group's hike to Mount Everest in 2012 because of his military commitments.