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I did it…I bagged the Geographical North Pole! Blimey, that was tougher than I thought, despite the extensive fitness/strength training and ice based training Ive been undertaking over the last 18/24 months. My sledge finally weighed in at 13 stones (85kg) when we started, including food, fuel, cooking stoves, pots and pans etc but it was the sea of pressure ridges and open [...]
we are off (nearly!) This will be my last blog update before I head to the Pole as there is not much mobile phone reception or wifi on the top of the world (yet) so I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has sponsored or supported me in some way, shape or form. I am extremely [...]
Yes, I have seen Prince Harry… It was fantastic to meet Prince Harry and the Walking with Wounded guys on Friday night. Simon Daglish and Edward Parker set up the charity and if you want inspiration in the face of adversity, you can’t get better role models than these four young men. I’m immensely proud to be up here with them [...]
You must read this – what a challenge! Last night I met two truly inspirational people, Richard Parks and Steve Williams, who are doing an amazing challenge. Richard is a former Welsh Rugby International and is up here doing the North Pole element of his 7 month race to climb the highest mountain on each of the world’s continents and venture to the [...]
The most northerly ? in the world… The most northerly ? in the world… I arrived at an extraordinarily large aircraft hangar at Spitsbergen airport this morning along with other skiers heading out later this week. It was a hive of activity, teams had formed and relationships were beginning to be built. Sledges were being packed and rations allocated. Quite what KAWKA [...]
We wait…we prepare…we hope! Today was one of those wonderful days you will recall from your from childhood where time slowed and every minute felt like an hour. I slept in as it was a luxurious day of self enforced rest, not through injury thankfully but through necessity as the extreme weather has slightly delayed the Russians who are [...]
Observations from ‘up north’ – no sign of Prince Harry (yet). Observations from ‘up north’ – no sign of Prince Harry (yet). As someone who lives near the south coast of Devon, I probably couldn’t get much further north from the UK than Spitsbergen, the largest island of the Svalbard archipelago. Devon has wonderful sandy beaches, palm trees gently swaying in the breeze and hoards of [...]
I’m Off! I’m off! I write this in Stockholm preparing to travel to Oslo, Tromso then to Longyearbyen tomorrow morning. Flight up later in the week after a few day acclimatising, followed by a helicopter drop off at about 88 degrees north before finally getting on the ice again. I’m in good company, Prince Harry is arriving [...]
My Hero – Sir Ernest Shackleton Ernest Shackleton was a British explorer of the Antarctic in the early 1900′s. He is best remembered for his expedition from 1914-1916 in the HMS Endurance. During this journey, his ship got stuck in the ice near the Antarctic continent. He and his 27 men then survived 19 months before they were rescued. Shackleton organized [...]
A day in the life of a Polar Traveller!! A number of people have asked what a typical day was on expedition so I thought I would try and outline how it was for me. Read this sitting in front of a freezer (typically set at minus 19) with the door open to get a sense of the cold. Turn on the head torch. [...]
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