By Richmond Dykes Well, what can we say from myself and Mary Mouse, this will be our final update to The Coldest Journey Facebook page and website from the Antarctic continent. After spending a winter camped on the plateau, we finally started to mov… read more
Every morning and every evening Brian our Ice Team leader braves the cold and windy conditions to take meteorological observations as part of our very many scientific projects during the expedition. These then get sent back to the Met Office in the UK… read more
Expedition news update: Following days of digging out the snow and ice that has built up around the Cats after a long Antarctic winter, the machines are finally clear and the expedition team are now ready to attempt the long return journey of t… read more
Mary Mouse has been keeping a low profile these recent months on the ice, but now the sun is up she’s out and about making herself busy around camp. Watch this video by Ian Prickett of Mary’s best friend Richmond Dykes showing us what the little mous… read more
If you ever wanted to know how the Ice Team gets their drinking water, watch this video in which team leader Brian Newham runs us through the process. read more
Current Location: S72 51′ 13.5″, E023 33′ 50.2″ Welcome back to all the schools subscribed and following The Coldest Journey. First of all, the entire Coldest Journey team are extremely pleased to announce that our Seeing is Believing… read more
Dear Education subscriber As you may be aware The Coldest Journey Expedition has unfortunately had to halt its aim of crossing Antarctica during winter. This has been down to a number of factors from vast stretches of complex crevasse fields, to burning… read more
