Current position: N56° 13.499″ / W42° 21.56″ Elevation: 3348m Distance travelled: 178km Day 15/ Camp 11… yes, we’ve used all our reserve weather days already. Greenland is definitely throwing everything at us. Recent time lost due to snow storm. Team member heli-lifted out, unable to continue and some minor facial frostbite within team but […]
Happy Easter from the Greenland icecap! Off to a good start. Great team. Having a good time. Hurricane winds. Total wipeout. Digging tents out every few hours. Double snowball (or something that sounded like that!) destroyed in the process Coldest temperature so far is minus 27 degrees. Currently minus 21.1 and the sun is still […]
Well… the wait is over, this is it. It has just turned 00:00 on April 12th 2014, and by the time the countdown reaches zero I will have landed in Greenland. It feels a little surreal to have finally reached this point, and I still don’t think it will fully hit me until I am […]
Hi everyone 🙂 A little touch and go yesterday leaving London, but despite delays caused by industrial action I arrive back in Reykjavik safe sound. In fact, I ended up running into some old friends at Heathrow I had not seen for a while and would have missed had my flight been on time. Pretty […]
Training completed: crossing Iceland north to south via the Sprengisandur route – done. This was definitely the most physically demanding trip I have done. Iceland put on a great show too with some spectacular scenery and (literally) a couple of sunny days at the end which were simply beautiful, the ground scintillating like it was […]