Team TCJ

By Anton Bowring Last night, following a wonderful dinner with our hosts, Brian and Lee-Anne Singer and their family, Ran, Jo and I retired to our rooms knowing that by dawn, the team should be in Cape Town. Earlier that evening I had been in touch with ALCI in whose Ilyushin aircraft our five colleagues were due to fly. Antarctic logistic arrangements are complicated and during this early…

On the morning of Tuesday the 26th November, Sir Ranulph Fiennes and the Ice Team will be available for a Q&A session live on Camup.com. All you will need is a webcam and an internet connection to watch the web streaming event available to our followers all over the world. If you want to be one of the lucky ones to ask them a question, make a donation using the link below…

An aircraft, the IL76, departed Cape Town this morning heading for Novo with an eta of 1310GMT. The plan was that when it landed at Novo some of the passengers would get straight onto a Twin Otter bound for Princess Elisabeth. They would then get off at PE and the Ice Team would get on and fly back to Novo where the IL76 would be waiting. We have not had confirmation from the team yet that a…

This is the third and final post in our series of summaries by scientists behind The Coldest Journey’s many research projects. Over several months ahead we will be periodically producing some of the key findings of the results from the very many scientific tests undertaken during The Coldest Journey. Although the Ice Team’s story is soon to be wrapped up, please continue to visit our website and…

This is the second in our series of summaries by scientists behind The Coldest Journey’s many research projects. By Dr Jeremy Wilkinson: Knowing our location accurately is important for many activities; for example, millions of people use the GPS on their smart phones to find shops, restaurants or to navigate city streets.  These systems have an accuracy of around 10 meters in the horizontal,…

As you know, the Ice Team has been carrying out a huge amount of scientific research during the expedition, from meteorological observations and snow sampling to the psychological and physical testing of the White Mars project. Now that the journey is at an end and the team wait to be air-lifted from the continent, we have asked some of the scientists behind the research projects for a litt…

What was your favourite subject at school? Without a doubt it was physical education. All I wanted to do was participate and I’ve never been that interested in being a sports spectator. As a youngster I was highly competitive, but I have moved away from that and it’s now more about testing myself and enjoying whatever it is I’m doing. Besides sport, I was keen on the practical subjects lik…

Don’t miss the final instalment of the Joanna Lumley Interviews, right here on Facebook tomorrow night at 7pm… Next up in the chair is Ice Team Leader, Brian Newham. I have read his answers. It’s going to be a good…

1901 – 1904 – Discovery Expedition The British National Antarctic Expedition commonly referred to as the Discovery Expedition, led by Robert Falcon Scott, was the first official British exploration of the Antarctic regions since James Clark Ross’s voyage sixty years earlier. The ship “Discovery” was built especially for the expedition at a cost of £51,000 (£4.1 m today). Amongst the crew was…

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