skiing
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Day 14 Another whiteout and Cottage Pie for diner
18km It started off okay, with stiff winds and a bit cloudy. However within an hour, the Antarctic clouds descended and it was just skiing through a whiteout from then on. Tough…
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Day 11 Storms, Sastrugi, Three Sails Mountains and stunning views!
14.5km/ 9miles Last night… wow! That was a terrific storm. As expected, it reached its strongest from around 3-5am and it really was strong. Very happy with the tent – always felt…
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Day 8 Another tent day
It’s definitely frustrating. Another day in the tent. It’s difficult not to think of the time lost and the distance that would have liked to have covered today. The weather has been…
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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 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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Traveling through whiteouts
Some of the most intense days when skiing on the Hardangervidda plateau were spent skiing through whiteout conditions. Whiteouts are when you can’t tell the difference between the snow beneath your skis…
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Norway training Part 2: Preparing for Greenland and South Pole
With the ending of the group training with Hvitserk, I took the opportunity to go on my own solo journey around the Ustaoset and Finse region, and up to the Hardangervidda Plateau.…
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Norway training, 2022: Part 1
For one month or so from the middle of January 2022, I went to Norway. First to meet with the group organised by Norwegian company Hvitserk with whom I will be going…
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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…