Day 5 12th February Distance – 54km Total distance – 201km Again the forecast was for good weather. Gale-force winds are a regular occurrence around Schirmacher Oasis/Novo so we were lucky to have the forces of nature on our side. As I was planning to do a longer day today to reach the finish, I […]
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A Beautiful Day?
Day 4 11th February Distance – 40km Total distance – 147km Finally a beautiful day – sunny, clear and cold. It was still -17C when I set off and no doubt with the wind chill, it would have been much lower. The first 20km was the roughest part of the journey as the route traversed […]
Pushing through, whatever the conditions
Day 2 9th February Distance – 32km Total distance – 67km The uphill, into the wind battle resumed on some pretty soft snow. I decided to divide my day into 10km segments, then take a break, refuel, warm up and go again. It turned out to be a good mental approach. The contrast was not […]
On the runway and ready to go!
Blog 2 6th and 7th February Total distance: 21km The 6th February was a huge day, leaving my hotel at 4am to get to Cape Town International airport in time for the 6am flight. It was an incredible thrill to board an Airbus bound for Wolf’s Fang Runway, Antarctica! Travelling with me (in First Class […]
Head down ’til the finish
Blog 13 Londres to San Francisco Pass/the Argentine-Chile border 19th – 21st April 2022 Days 51 – 53 Distance – 327km Total distance – 3248km TOTAL DISTANCE FOR 2020/2022 EXPEDITIONS – 4354km This journey began in 2020 (before the onset of the pandemic) from Cusco in Peru, the capital of the ancient Incan Empire. Given […]
Breaking the Cycle Across Australia
Blog 1 Welcome to the first blog for my new expedition, Breaking the Cycle Across Australia. This is going to be a 6000km+ journey from Cape Byron, Australia’s most easterly point to Steep Point, the continent’s most westerly tip. Starting from the Cape Byron Lighthouse, the route is going to track across the Great Dividing […]
