Team TCJ

Click on the image to watch a short video by James Clark about the fascinating White Mars research project which will be carried out during the expedition. Featuring Dr Mik…

It is inevitable that the focus of attention is on the six-man Ice Group, especially as we near the coast of Antarctica and approach the daunting task ahead. They are the obvious heroes of our story and they have the toughest role to play. If they succeed, it is very likely that books will be written and films made about them. Indeed, a documentary is being filmed as I write, and Ran is preparing…

Geoff Long reports from aboard the SA Agulhas about his multi-faceted role within the expedition about leaving home, helping Ran find his kit and selling our story to the South Africans… It seems incredible that it is only 12 days since I left the UK, shortly after the hectic run-up to Christmas and the associated mad rush around the country to visit relatives. So much has happened sinc…

Dr Rob Lambert reveals more about some of the scientific studies he will be undertaking. Or, as he rather puts it, this is his iBlog (get it?!): “A major aim of our expedition is to raise funds for Seeing is Believing, which aims to tackle avoidable blindness all over the planet. So perhaps appropriately, besides the small matter of crossing Antarctica in winter, another of the expedition’s aims…

Ian Prickett’s first blog, written from his cabin aboard SA Agulhas: We are finally underway and heading for The Ice. What a huge relief that we are actually onboard as at times this summer, it never looked as if we were going to make it! I have only been fully involved for the last year, but what an interesting and eye-opening time it has been. My position in this expedition originally began…

I feel greatly relieved now that the expedition has set out for Antarctica. Since Mike Stroud suggested the idea to me five years ago, I have been working on it full-time and, like all the volunteers I have recruited onto the Team, unpaid. My original aim, and Mike’s, was simply to cross the Antarctic Continent on skis during the polar winter and using food/fuel depots parachuted the previous…

“As a trustee for The Coldest Journey I have been looking forward to this day for weeks. To think that the team are now well and truly on their way to attempting this extraordinary challenge is terrifically ex…citing. I can only imagine how Sir Ranulph Fiennes and the rest of the Ice Team must be feeling right now. I think for most people the idea of what lies ahead would be simply petrifying…

The doctor and I made our way back to our seats. I was close to passing out for real. My legs were like jelly. Technically, as the winner of our round, I should have moved on to the next heat but Londiwe was very sweet and said that I had done enough. The winners were engineer cadet, Kwasi Ampomah, jointly with deck cadet, Mzamoyakhe Mngoma, for the men and deck cadet, Priscilla Afful, for t…