Fact of the Day:

At the South Pole the sun sets on the March Equinox and rises again on the September Equinox. That’s a long night in anybody’s book!

Ice cliffs are walls of ice where glaciers meet the sea. Icebergs “calve” from the front of the cliffs, giving a continually breaking edge the full height of the glacier. Image: Brian Newham, Ice Team leader, The Coldest…

If you ever wanted to know how the Ice Team gets their drinking water, watch this video in which team leader Brian Newham runs us through the process.

Nobody owns Antarctica. In 1959 the Antarctic Treaty was drafted, designating the land as “a natural reserve, devoted to peace and science”. The treaty came into force on 23 June 1961 and there are currently 50 signatory nations.

If all the ice in Antarctica melted the world’s sea levels would rise approximately 61 metres. Image shows how the UK might look if all of the Antarctic ice melted. Sourc…

The Coldest Journey’s equipment specialist Steve Holland is featured in today’s Independent. When not putting Ice Team members through their paces and testing equipment down to nearly -60C in cold chambers, Steve likes to get busy blowing things up! Follow this link to read more about his work.

There are 17 species of penguin in the world and five of these breed in the Antarctic; the Emperor penguin is the only one to breed in the Antarctic winter. Image: Adults and juvenile emperor penguins, by Ian Duffy,…

The post below was written by co-leader of The Coldest Journey, Anton Bowring, with specific reference to comments made by Fred Pohl and Bob Searle. Whilst it is not our policy to reply to such criticisms directly, it was felt in this case that a response was appropriate. On June 19th Mr Pohl posted on Facebook: “If Fuchs [making reference to Vivian Fuchs, whose team made the first overland…

A nunatak is an isolated rocky peak that is sticking up through an ice sheet.

Richmond wearing sleep monitor By Brian Newham We are now in the midst of another five-day series of tests as part of the White Mars project. We do these tests every 28 days, and because they take about four hours for each of us to go through the process we stagger them over five days. For those of you who don’t know already, the White Mars project aims to examine the physiological and…