It’s Saturday evening and we’re back inside the tent – these are the last few hours that we spend together before we sleep.
It has been another good day and we have made some very good progress in the 8½ hours that we have been walking.
The storm that we have been walking against has finally finished which has massively aided our progress. Not only does that make our walking somewhat easier but it also means that the dreaded ice drift that has been dragging us back has slowed considerably. We’re now only drifting around 400m every night as opposed to several kilometres that we were losing at the start of our journey.
The storm has left challenges in our way, with open water and crevasses in the ice. The gaps have ranged from around 0.5m to as much as 10m, meaning that we have been climbing across various pieces of ice rubble to bridge those gaps, but there is great satisfaction amongst the team that we are now getting closer to our goal.
Don’t forget that I’m doing this for two very worthwhile causes, Riders for Health and BASIC, and I would like to thank everybody who has donated.
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