Well, as you might imagine, we are getting fairly tired of our standard rations. But tonight for Hogmanay (New Year’s Eve for all those that don’t have Scottish descendants!). It’s been another long day but tonight we’re looking forward to enjoying a small dram of whisky...
We skied 9.6nm today and today was another tough day. We skied 9.6nm today and today was another tough day. No contrast, lots of wind and everything directly into our faces. We are stronger with the amount of exercise we do every day but Antarctica continues...
All’s well here in camp. Another long day but no wind….which makes us extremely happy and we did our second longest day of the trek so far. The cloud cover is causing the light to be flat so we stumble and fall on several occasion. But we...
[video width="704" height="576" mp4="https://www.2041foundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/EdelmanPR_SkyNews_28_12_2017_09_51.mp4"][/video] Rob talking to the media today and before he left for the Expedition....
A rough one today with the sastrugi getting the better of us. The mileage is dropping but the effort is full on. It takes all our energy to get through these days. The journey is all uphill and we were walking into a head wind as...
We are gaining altitude with each passing day. However it is not a straight up hill. We are crawling are way across giant waves in the glacier. It is always daunting to see a big rise growing on the horizon, knowing that we have to go...
Hoping everyone is recovering from too much fun and lots of jovial time with family and friends We send big love to all of our families who afforded us the time to ski to the South Pole, but understand it is for a greater good and...
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[video width="1280" height="720" mp4="https://www.2041foundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/P1011043_1.mp4"][/video] Tonight I thought we would take a moment to remind ourselves WHY…the SPEC Team are skiing across Antarctica. It’s the highest, driest, coldest and windiest place on earth…east of the sun, west of the moon and south of everything else. Our mission is that...
