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An almost cloudless start to the day but it quickly invaded from the east. The wind came and went and with it the drift, but overall it was a good day for travel. The first couple of kilometres were across blue ice, so for the most part we had to double-head with both Cats pulling each of the four loads. Once we were past that and got onto a firm snow surface the Cats could move independently…

1 What was your favourite subject at school? My favourite subject at school was science, more so Chemistry and Physics.  I enjoyed the precise working out of the blends of chemicals to obtain the correct outcome from the experiments.  But on the same note – the experiments when the teacher said ‘make sure you do not add more than the specified amount because….. “. These were taken into…

Good conditions today and we winched the cabooses up and over the hill followed by the remaining fuel scoots. All somewhat relieved to be beyond this obstacle and to have done so without any serious drama. We are now camped just to the north of the hill and are busy this evening reconfiguring the loads ready for the next section. Ahead of us lies a few kilometres of blue ice where traction could…

Fortunately the very strong winds that we had yesterday eased during the night to a more moderate 30 knots and that was enough to allow us to start the GPR survey of the route ahead. This is a badly crevassed area but thankfully many of the bridges that we built on our southbound journey we found were still intact. By lunchtime we had surveyed up and over the hill and  identified a few mor…

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The weather for the last few days has been the best we have had for many, many months and that has helped us make good progress. The ground penetrating radar has been busy as we check the route ahead and several sections have required a twisting route as we pick our way through crevassed areas. Moving the loads through is a slow process and much of it is done on the winch cable – move the Cat…

by Brian Newham…

Regular visitors will remember that a few months ago we launched the Challenge Yourself initiative, inviting you – our followers – to conjure up your own wacky ideas for putting yourselves to the test to raise money for Seeing is Believing. Over the coming weeks and months we will be showcasing some of the fabulous efforts that the most adventurous among you have been making – starting…