Harbinger of Armageddon
Upping our skiing time from 10 to 11hours a day once we began our descent the distance began to noticeably improve. From struggling to hit 25kilometers per day we were now easily making 30-35. Soon [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Training in Norway
* Lost in the most remote corners of Kalimantan’s oldest, most dense rainforest. ** Negotiating our way through conflict torn communities in Papua New Guineas tribal heartlands. *** Dragging trailers filled with water through the [...]
Phase One Complete
Phase One Complete. The flames licked hungrily at our battered pan, inside a pack of noodles complimented by a handful of unknown leafy plants and a few slithers of biltong bubbled hungrily. With only three [...]
Descending the Plateau de Makira
Descending the Plateau de Makira, we had made our way into the dry desolate hinterlands of Madagascar. The next morning after we arrived at The Friends of Mandritsara compound, I awoke early to begin preparing [...]