Team TCJ

Congratulations to Sarah Crist on getting married to Jonathan Wiltshire today! Sarah was the project manager with Finning CAT, ensuring that we got all the resources we needed to prepare and modify the D6Ns. In this picture she is braving temperatures of around -50C with Ian Prickett inside the cold chamber at Millbrook Proving Ground. We miss you Sarah!

If you include its ice shelves and islands, Antarctica is around 58 times the size of the UK, or 1.4 times the size of the USA.

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 during the Antarctic winter. These two guys were spotted in Crown Bay when the SA Agulhas was being unloaded back in January.

98% of Antarctica is covered by ice that averages more than a mile thick. If you exclude the ice shelves and islands, this percentages gets close to 99.7%.

To many people, Antarctica is one of the most fascinating places on Earth. Whether it be its remoteness, its extreme weather, its extraordinary landscapes and features, or just by virtue of the fact that there is still so much unknown about this isolated land, the continent captures the imagination like no other. Starting today we are going to be posting interesting facts, figures and phrases…

Since I returned from Antarctica on the good ship SA Agulhas in February, my administrative duties have settled into a routine which even the least adventurous amongst us would find somewhat mundane. However, like many of the expedition’s followers, I have been gripped by the unfolding story and the never ending stresses and sheer physical demands that our five stalwart colleagues have endured…

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…

Don’t forget that hundreds of expedition photographs can be viewed on Flickr at http://www.flickr.com/photos/thecoldestjourney/ including the latest pictures from t…

The Coldest Journey’s Ice Team have taken on the biggest challenge of their lives and they’re asking what you can do to challenge yourself and raise money for Seeing is Believing. Every day, for the 285 million visually impaired people around the world, life can be challenging.  Given that 90% of the world’s visually impaired people live in developing countries, life can be especially…

Fiennes, right, with team mates before getting frostbite Co-leader of The Coldest Journey, Sir Ranulph Fiennes, said today that he had every confidence that the Ice Team would make the best out of any difficult situation after we revealed yesterday that the team had suffered a series of setbacks in recent days. Whilst the Ice Team were making good progress today in difficult conditions (report…