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Hi everyone, I am pleased to say I have made my decision that today is going to be an awesome day and I hope yours is too 🙂 I have changed my mind on what I was going to write for this posting and decided to make it more of an album instead. I was […]

…the tough gets some wire, glue, a small piece of plywood, a bunch of phillips head screws and melted Pringles lid! 🙂 Which is what we went through trying to Band-aid my broken ski. JUST TO MAKE IT MORE OF A CHALLENGE Yes, of all things to happen on this expedition a broken ski was […]

STEPPING BACK IN TIME Although there were no markets, lovely restaurants, theatre shows or other usual tourist trappings on this journey, one special iconic site was on the itinerary. Something I for one was very much looking forward to… The Dye 2 station, a proper relic of the cold war. The Dye stations formed part […]

Time to share some awesome news… Including earlier pledges, which have now come in following the success of the expedition, I am extremely happy to say we have raised £6,985 for BeatBullying and the anti-bullying cause! 😀 That puts the total raised at 70pc of the fundraising target which is brilliant. …ok 69.85pc to be […]

Hi everyone 🙂 In this post I want to continue the storm theme from last week and share some footage of the snow storm we experienced. This storm arrived three days after we survived the piteraq, and stopped us in our tracks for another couple of days. Unfortunately it settled right over the top of […]

Hi everyone, This weeks blog is more visual than verbal, since the short video below really paints the picture better than words will describe (at least given my narrative skills). The clip is a compilation of the changing weather conditions, showing the calm before the storm after spending over half a day fortifying our camp […]

As you will have gathered from Part 1 life on the glacier was not a laid back affair. This week I want to fill in the gaps of last weeks overview and get into some of the nitty gritty. As they say, whoever ‘they’ are, the devil’s in the detail… SLEEPING Something we all looked […]

We were about half way through the expedition and it had been another long day, with a new personal best of 37kms covered. We had made up a great deal of lost time the last couple of days, and were told we could actually afford a rest day tomorrow to relax and recover which would […]

Following a thorough check of equipment and supplies the previous night we packed everything into our sleds on the morning of Monday 14th April and headed to the airport. Once there we placed each sled on the scales and made some final shuffles so weight was distributed evenly amongst the team as best possible i.e. […]

Hi everyone, Apologies for not getting back to you sooner, the next full blog will be out beginning of this coming week, taking a little longer coming back to earth than I expected. Still a bit of a pain typing as well – physically, not mentally *chuckle* – and I imagine the expedition will not […]