From the Ice

Ian Prickett journeys down the full length of the 500m winch cable which the guys have created to pull back the fuel scoots which are stranded in a huge crevasse field. The video also features a close up of a 20m deep hole in the ice. Impressive. &nbs…

Believe it or not I am in ‘the tent’ trying to use the GPR. With me inside the tent is an insulated plastic box which we modified to house the GPR and several hot water bottles to try and keep the unit warm. The tent is trying to shelter me from a 30 knot wind and keep the drifting snow off the GPR unit. It worked to a limited extent but it was pretty uncomfortable and very hard to use the GPR…

In improving conditions the cabooses and remaining scoots were moved 1.2km forwards to join the scoots that we ferried ahead yesterday evening. This put everything on the northern edge of another area of disturbance. With someone leading on foot we then moved six scoots a further 5km through this area. The final 1km was the more difficult with sizeable crevassing. It is thought that our furthest…

Spencer hands over the keys to a jubilant Ian When Sir Ranulph Fiennes departed from our expedition two months ago now, we were all sad to see our leader go. Without his valiant efforts over the last five years bringing together people and resources from around the world, none of us would have had the privilege of being here.  With Ran no longer with us however, there is no longer a full-tim…

Thank you to everyone who got involved with our Sunset Competition. We have had nearly a hundred entries, which is way more than we had every imagined we would get! It’s great news, but it also means that we’re going to take longer than we expected to draw up a shortlist. Hopefully we’ll have something posted on Flickr by the end of today… In the meantime, check out all of the entries on Flickr…

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This photo was taken by Ice Team Leader Brian Newham this aftermoon. A full update of the team’s progress today will follow later, but if Brian has had enough time to take a picture things are certainly not all bad! Thinking of sunsets, if you reckon you can do better post your best photo (taken by you!) on our Facebook page or send to opsroom@thecoldestjourney.org and we’ll select our favorite.

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