Expedition Journal

    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...]

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...]

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...]

  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...]