Before the Storm Set In

Posted by Hugh Bowring in From the Ice Videos on April 12, 2013

At HQ we are waiting for latest status report from the ice. Temperature at 7am (BST) was -30C with 35 knot gusts and heavy drifting snow.

While we wait for a progress report, here is a video “our man with the cam” Ian Prickett produced a couple of days ago when the terrible weather abated for a short while.

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Posted by Paul in the UK on April 12, 2013 @ 12:48 pm

I was reading Amundsen’s account of his expedition to the South Pole and he wrote ““For we may just as well confess it: we had forgotten to bring out a tool which is a commonplace necessity on a Polar expedition — namely, a snow-shovel.”

It’s a good job you guys didn’t!!!

Posted by Matt on April 12, 2013 @ 2:23 pm

I thought there were supposed to be 2 men skiing in front of the ice train throughout the entire trip? Can you post photos/video of this?

Posted by Flossie Reed on April 12, 2013 @ 7:28 pm

Since Ranulph Fiennes left the expedition with frost bite, the team decided that they couldn’t let one person walk on their own because if they fell ill because of the coldness they would have one seriously ill person in the caboose and then they would have a person who couldn’t do any thing and that would not be easy with out them.

Posted by Mike S on April 13, 2013 @ 12:37 am

So no one is walking across Antarctica during this winter crossing?
I thought that was the basic idea.

Posted by Piotr on April 13, 2013 @ 8:54 am

watching you from France; keep on going, your spirit gives us courage; may the good winds be with you

Posted by annac on April 14, 2013 @ 4:05 pm

Another terrific video and it really explained the daily task of keeping going, Are you going to carry on through the night once you have reached the top of the plateau so you don’t have to warm up the cats? Re walking or skiing ahead, I think it would have been a risk too far. Good luck and hope the going and the weather gets a bit easier soon.

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Before the Storm Set In