Fact of the Day: What is Pancake Ice?
Resembling pancakes or lily pads, pancake ice grows from thickened grease ice, which is itself a thin layer of ice crystals on the water surface with a greasy appearance and like a slush puppy in consistency. The edges of pancake ice are upturned because they bump into each other as they gently move around in the sea. They are usually between about a foot (30cm) and 6 feet (2m) across. Pancakes…
Ice Team’s Appeal for Challenge Yourself campaign
One of the main aims of The Coldest Journey is to raise $10 million for Seeing is Believing, a charitable initiative set up to prevent avoidable blindness in the developing world. Please watch this moving video from everyone on the Ice Team about the charity and how you can get involved. The Challenge Yourself campaign aims to get people from all walks of life to set their own challenges and in…
Fact of the Day: Coldest Temperature Ever Recorded
The lowest temperature officially recorded on earth was -89.2C (-128.6F) at Vostok Station, Antarctica, in July 1983 Image shows location of Lake Vostok, Antarctica. Source: NASA…
Fact of the Day
The significant presence of fossilised trees and leaves suggest that the Antarctic continent was forested in an earlier geological time. Image: Fossil Leaf from King George Island © Claire McDonald (University of Leeds)…
Fuel Transfer – a blog by Spencer Smirl
Of all the chores we have to complete out of doors at our winter camp, re-fuelling is the most difficult; it is also the most important. No fuel would mean no generators and no generators would mean no heat. When it is -50 degrees Celsius outside, it doesn’t take long without running generators to drop the interior caboose temperature to below freezing. It is a good thing the Perkins generators…
Fact of the Day
The Antarctic ice holds 70% of the world’s fresh water Antarctic ice holds 70% of the worlds fresh water…
Don’t Miss Our Latest Photos
Just a reminder that you can see all the latest photos from the ice on our Flickr site, including this terrific shot by Ian Prickett of a snow drift near camp. See all photos using the Photostream, or be more selective by clicking on specific Sets. Click here to see mor…
Fact of the Day
The Antarctic ozone hole was discovered by British scientists and it led to severe restrictions in the use of CFC’s globally. It is not expected to recover until around 2070. Image source: National Geographic The Antarctic ozone hole was discovered by British scientists and it lead to severe restrictions in the use of CFC’s globally. It is not expected to recovere until around 2070…
Coldest Journey Merchandise Now Available
We are pleased to announce that The Coldest Journey shop is now open. From baseball hats and USB sticks to ice scrapers and T-shirts, there is plenty of reasonably priced expedition-branded merchandise on offer for our fans to take a keepsake of their own.Click here to visit the shopThe Coldest Journey will stand in the record books as Man’s first ever attempt to cross the Antarctic during t…
Twilight – by Brian Newham
For once we have light winds and the twilight this morning is quite spectacular.Having not seen the sun since the 9th May it is now getting tantalisingly close to the horizon. On the 3rd August (or even sooner, these things are difficult to predict), we should get our first glimpse, weather permitting, of the sun as it nudges briefly above the horizon and thereafter our days will gradually…
- Newer Posts
- Page 12 of 48
- Older Posts
