North Pole

It seems my luck must be holding as given all of the disruption to airspace over western Europe in the past 6 days, I have had a perfect journey back to London. In fact I left Longyearbyen in the high Arctic at 14:45 and have connected via Tromso in Norway, then Oslo and onto London [...]

Another day adjusting back from the polar ice to the real world. I spent a day writing up my thoughts and reflections on the trip and getting copies of Rune’s photos some of which I’ve included in the photos below. Today the private plane got a flight clearance to fly from Longyearbyen to Edinburgh so [...]

We’re still collating our photographs here in Spitsbergen following our North Pole adventure, with some of the photographs really bringing back the memories of our arduous journey across the Arctic to the North Pole. All of my photos will be going up on my Flickr and Facebook pages but here is just another sample of [...]

For me, this is trying to get back into the swing of work.  I have now managed to log on and started to go through my 220 personal emails, over 100 business emails and also sort out all of my photographs so that we can get some new pictures up on our North Pole website. [...]

As you now know, the team and I successfully made it to the North Pole on Thursday after a gruelling and emotional journey across the Arctic Ice. We’re still in Spitsbergen and over the coming days I’ll be sending photos, thoughts and videos of my journey to the Pole, hopefully reflecting the enjoyment, the camaraderie [...]

Very much a day of rest and recuperation in an adventurous way, as we have today been hiring some snowmobiles and undertaking a big trip of 100 miles across the frozen ocean to a stunning glacier of blue ice. I last visited here ten years ago and is just as beautiful as I remember it [...]

Having safely arrived back on land in Longyearbyen on the island of Spitsbergen within the Svalbard islands life starts returning to normal. I have now had 3 showers within 24 hours and starting to feel clean and I am eating real food, rather than rehydrated food again.  Also after no alcohol for well over a [...]

As many of you now know, yesterday we made it to the North Pole! There is some sense of disappointment in my last podcast that we didn’t reach the pole the way that we had intended, having to take a helicopter for the last 20 miles. We began the expedition with a tight schedule, only [...]

David Newman and the team have successfully reached the North Pole. David called back to the UK base camp at 15:14 BST from exactly 90′ N, meaning that he and the team have successfully reached the geographic North Pole.

My latest update comes on Tuesday 13th April from near the North Pole after a couple of days where we have struggled to make any real progress. The storms have re-emerged and the weather is once again conspiring against us. Yesterday we broke camp at a reasonable time, spending around 3 hours negotiating lots of [...]