Status Update
by Brian Newham All eight remaining fuel scoots have been brought up to last night’s camp in pairs by double-head. We then started to move both cabooses further south but very quickly encountered difficult terrain with honeycombed ice. Progress has been very slow and with fading light we called an early stop for the day whilst we formed a strategy for tomorrow. Tomorrow we will recce the rout…
The Week That Was (Cold)
Tales from the Ops Team – by Tris Kaye Blue ice: mile-long sheets of exposed, frictionless, traction-less icy hell. I hate it. Every time I hear over the sat-phone that the team is approaching another patch of the stuff, my heart sinks and I hate it a little more. Besides crevasse fields, blue ice is probably the worst sort of terrain to stifle progress. In the persistent winds, cold enough to…
Blue Ice: See it for Yourself
The Ice Team have had more than their fair share of blue ice on this expedition, and they are getting more and more used to coping with it – which is not the same as they like it! Here is a video Ian Prickett made some time ago which gives a good reminder of what blue ice is and how it hampers progress so severely. Watch out for those tracks spinning! &nbs…
