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Over the last few days we have seen a few birds around camp. They were just distant sightings but it was a sure sign that summer has arrived and life is coming back to the continent. Late last night the five of us stood and watched as a Twin Otter aircraft appeared from the west. We knew it was coming and had been sending weather reports throughout the day and at last it was nearly with us.

Last chance to win a signed copy of Sir Ranulph Fiennes’s latest book, Cold. Deadline for entries is this Sunday, 30th March. To enter, all you need to do is send an email with the subject line “Cold” to TGExpedition@aol.com. A name will be drawn out of a hat (or equivalent random selection process!) later this month and the book will be posted to the lucky winner. By entering the draw your…

  Win a signed copy of Sir Ranulph Fiennes’s latest book, Cold.   To enter, all you need to do is send an email with the subject line “Cold” to TGExpedition@aol.com. A name will be drawn out of a hat (or equivalent random selection process!) later this month and the book will be posted to the lucky winner.   By entering the draw your email address will be added to our…

The Coldest Journey is one of many great tales of bravery and daring to be featured in Sir Ranulph Fiennes latest book, Cold. Fiennes has spent a lifetime working in conditions of extreme cold – his frostbitten fingers are a testament to the horrors that man can experience in such temperatures, but he also knows that the life he has led owes a great deal to the cold. Both scientifically rigorous,…

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Don’t miss your chance to hear Brian Newham presenting at The Telegraph Outdoor Adventure & Travel Show in London next month!The Coldest Journey’s Ice Team Leader will be presenting on each 3rd Annual Spring Arts Fling Celebrates Young Audiences…

Greetings to you all and a Happy New Year. Although our news is now vastly reduced, I can, at the very least, pass on best wishes from Ran and the expedition team. Everyone is well and adjusting to normal life. No one has been adversely affected by the months of solitude in Antarctica and, to the best of my knowledge, none of the team members is undergoing counselling or suffering from any…

The sky above London was clear last night but you couldn’t see the stars because, ironically, they were obscured by the festive Christmas lighting (electric stars – no less!). It was unseasonably warm too – an unusual combination, so at odds with Antarctica where, it has just been revealed, the lowest ever recorded temperature was experienced in July of this year at -93⁰C. That is well over…

Dear Followers, Now that the expedition team members are back home, the process of debriefing and processing their experiences for the scientists and schools is under way, and efforts to publicise the marvellous work of SiB continue. Inevitably, the day-to-day story is now less compelling although we shall continue to publish further reports as the final chapter unfolds in the months ahead. On…