greenland
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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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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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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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South Pole 2022??
So next year… finally… the Greenland expedition will go ahead, barring any deterioration in the COVID-19 situation and fingers crossed, vaccinations rates will keep going up. It’s all scheduled in the calendar…
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What a year!
So, it’s been a long while since have written anything, though as with pretty much everyone, the plans from the last year or so have been massively affected by everything that has…
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Functional pilates…
New Delhi is not the best place in the world to train for an expedition in the arctic environment. It’s a busy, bustling and pretty crazy city that is difficult to walk…
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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…
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Thinking about the gear
So much gear to think about and to get for journeys like these… got to get the right skis and bindings; polar boots that are compatible with the bindings… base layers, mid…