Day 4 of the expedition: another 10 miles in the bag - now 60% done (!), no team member in the water (yay!) and no bear feet prints (hum!) - an uneventful day and a 10 hour slog. 'We could have driven across the whole state of Colorado today', says … [Read more...]
GRIT&ROCK Blog
Walking on Water
Every night I sent my family my GPS coordinates via a DeLorme map. Last night's Tim's reply to my message read: 'Your geo location is pointing to the middle of the sea on the website.... Hope the ice is holding'... Those Brits have a dry sense of humour. Gentle reminder to … [Read more...]
Ice Rickshaw
Delirious happiness from getting on a plane to Barneo after an 8 day delay gave way to a long night in flying objects without windows or security briefings. Having lived with an image of the cracked airstrip for the past week, I was weary about the landing. Boom! AN-74 … [Read more...]
Leaving Polar Waiting Room
Waiting in Svalbard for the past two weeks for the departure to North Pole have had all the ingredients of John Le Carre novel: an international get together, a diplomatic stand-off, burly men, mercenaries, good baddies, insurmountable obstacles and a happy ending … [Read more...]
Meet Jade, a GRIT&ICE teen
Jade Hameister is a poster girl for GRIT&ROCK. This 14 year-old Australian aims to become the youngest person ever to ski to the two poles and across Greenland's ice cap. She will be going on ice with us in the coming days. I enjoyed spending sometime with her learning … [Read more...]
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