Groundhog Day
(Digging the tent out of a snow drift) The storm that hit us raged for three days. With only thirty days of food and fuel, we continued to push each of these days covering as much ground as possible. We had heard the other teams deployed on the ice had gone firm for the storm, though not ideal conditions [...]
Turning in
After making our way out of the crevasse fields we continued our climb up onto the icecap negotiating smaller but much deeper and deadly looking crevasses and melt water rivers that appeared during the day only to freeze again at night. Still in the polar bear zone we sleep in our tent with our rifle between us made ready [...]
Lost Comms and Crevasse Madness
Arrival We took a boat to the start point of our journey across Greenland, we began where most the ice cap traverses begins or finishes. An area by a settlement called Isortoq where the icecap almost meets the sea. A huge glacier roaring as tons of ice were shed periodically met our arrival. Instructing the Inuit skipper we weaved [...]
Video – Greenland Preperation
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Four tips for your time in Iceland
“I will give you four tips for your time in Iceland, I give these to everybody and they are free: Number one; you can drink the water straight from the tap. Number two; You never need to tip anybody whilst in Iceland. Number three; Only ever buy beer from the supermarket. Number four; you can use your credit card everywhere.” [...]
Be the Polar Bear
“Be the Polar Bear.” Petter; our Norwegian Mr Miagi, the Viking mentor who has guided our descent into polar exploration madness words ring out in my mind. “The polar never rushes, unless absolutely necessary, It spends it’s energy like a miser spends his coins, It is slow, methodical almost lazy in its actions. To survive in the cold, you must [...]