In the Press

Earlier this week Ice Team leader Brian Newham spoke with The Weather Channel in the US about the extreme Antarctic weather and what the guys have been experiencing. Follow the link below to listen to that interview. http://www.weather.com/video/the-coldest-journey-37886…

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.

To all of our supporters, The first ever attempt to cross Antarctica in winter, dubbed “The Coldest Journey”, has covered over 300 kilometers and climbed from sea level to almost 3,000 meters up to the polar plateau, since the five man team set out on 21st March this year.  This is the furthest distance and longest period that any expedition has travelled in the polar winter months.  Using…

Please watch this video – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22442346 – and then share it with everyone you know. The BBC have picked up on the fact that the team is having a hard time in Antarctica right now and asked us if we could make a short “show and tell” for their online news page.  We did and this morning it is on the front page. By watching and sharing the video (and it’s a great one, too!),…

Here’s a link to Radio Solent’s morning programme with Julian Clegg, featuring a live chat with none other than Pompey’s own, Ian Prickett. Available for the next five days only.

The very strong winds of the last two days moderated during the morning and we were able to dig out the Ice Train and reassemble. We then made slow progress across an area of Blue Ice where load ferrying was necessary due to insufficient traction. We are now at the location where we have agreed to depot the Belgian Lehmann sledge (S71 26′ 26.3″, E023 36′ 23.6″). Work is continuing this evening to…

Brian Newham described the Ice Team as being like a “coiled spring” on this morning’s Daybreak programme on ITV, as he announced that today’s scheduled launch may have to be postponed. Speaking via satellite phone from inside the living caboose, Brian told the presenters that that high winds and poor visibility meant it was “increasingly unlikely” the team would make the 1200GMT start, as t…

Please click on the link to Brian Newham’s article which appeard on BBC Online today. In it, he describes for the first time the moment the team found out Sir Ranulph Fiennes was leaving, and talks candidly about the challenge ahead.