adventure
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Thoughts, doubts and staying positive
The countdown has been on hold. I was meant to fly to Union Glacier on the 10th, then on the 12th… then possibly today but now hopefully tomorrow. As I mentioned in…
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Antarctica: Preparations and delays
The journey to Punta Arenas It has been a long couple of weeks or so. On the 28th October, I started the journey south from Inverness, making sure to have a couple…
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Getting the pulk…
The pulk (the sled) is pretty important for the entire journey. I will be pulling all my food, tent and equipment, fuel and clothes it and at the start of the South…
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STV interview
Strange seeing myself on TV! Really amazing to receive encouragement from legendary explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes as well! It has been a long time since last met with him and he has…
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Polar diet and nutrition
There are so many details to think about with any polar expedition, and a lot of planning is required. One of the most important aspects is the diet. For the expedition to…
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South Pole 2022 confirmed..!
Once I finished the Greenland crossing and managed to access my emails once again, I was greeted by the excellent news that Antarctic Logistics & Expeditions (ALE) had approved my plans for…
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Greenland – A final word…
Travelling over 560km across Greenland with the Hvitserk group of seven other adventurers from Norway, Denmark and Sweden, was a truly fantastic and memorable experience. The whole environment.. skiing on those days…
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Greenland Part 5: The final push
We were lucky with the weather and conditions over the full course of the journey. A couple of days’ worth of total whiteouts made navigation a little tricker, with some… interesting diversions…
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Greenland Part 4: Leaving DYE2 behind
After DYE2 we had a few more days of skiing slowly uphill before it was pretty much flat for a while, and we eventually started the slow and almost imperceptible descent towards…
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Greenland Part 3: Relics of the past…
As we sped across the ice, and left the western mountains and the icefall behind, we spotted the DYE2 abandoned radar station from around 28km away. A small black spot on the…
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Greenland Part 2: Speeding up…
We started the expedition off slowly: three 50 minute sessions on the first half day with 5km travelled, then doubling to six sessions on day 2. Following this we added an extra…
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Greenland Part 1: The icefall
The weather as we started was positively mild – around 5C at the bottom of the icefall at point 660, the starting place of pretty much all west-east Greenland expeditions around 90…
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Greenland – Final countdown and preparations
March-April 2022 With all the fitness training over the past few months, time really did seem to fly by to the end of April when we eventually started the journey across the…
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Boots ‘n Bindings
Getting boots for polar expeditions is not entirely simple – you have to consider the warmth of the boots of course, but you also have to consider the bindings that will let…