The ice was very odd today - the best and worst yet. The best bits were a couple of huge pans (flat ...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MUM! A pretty good day today - the ice is starting to improve (thanks Cissy!) and ...

A lead is a term for an area of open water - a crack in the pack ice. They're common up here (this ...

I've been out here for a month yet only today did I finally feel like I was getting into my stride. ...

The Arctic ocean was a bit too much like an ocean for my liking today. The nice flat pans I was ...

Apparently the submarine USS Honolulu is currently under the Arctic pack ice, 280 miles from the ...

At least I think that's the expression. I spent a few happy teenage years as a cyclist and secretly ...

Another day, another cheesy headline. I spent two hours this morning trying to cross a huge lead - ...

I woke up to a beautiful sunny day, with only a slight headwind to complain about. After climbing ...

Apologies for the missing update yesterday - a technical hitch somewhere along the line (a server ...

I can vaguely remember a cartoon poster on my bedroom wall when I was very young - a picture of a ...

It was really warm today. According to Tony, who receives the temp. along with my position from a ...

Up here I lead an incredibly simple existence, something I reflected upon this evening as I put my ...

Today kicked off with a few beautiful pans (flat areas of ice) before deteriorating into large ...

Not only the title of a great film, but something I was doing rather a lot of today. The ice was ...

I think I've avoided using this word until now, and I can't believe I'm about to say it, but today ...

That's what Sir Ranulph Fiennes calls it. My teachers prefered the term daydreaming. Either way, I ...

The ice conditions today were half great and half terrible. Polar opposites, you could say (groan). ...

It was a beautiful day again today, but I noticed something unusual as I set off this morning. I ...

I think the Arctic wanted to show me who's really the boss today. It was certainly the worst day of ...

I think it was the great Eddy Mercx (5 times Tour de France winner) that said if you kept hitting a ...

The weather is going beserk. I hardly slept last night as it was so windy and I woke up to find my ...

Most of today was a nightmare. Tony (my expedition manager) and Chris (Serco's CEO) arrived at ...

...I'm still here! I didn't get much sleep last night - the helicopter landed at 0130 my time and ...

'...as we drift'. Rather apt lyrics from my Song of the Day, a sublime acoustic version of Seal's ...

Bad news first: 1) the fabulous bit of drift north I experienced yesterday has fizzled out and once ...

As some of you know, 'Borneo', the temporary Russian airstrip near the Pole is closing soon. The ...

'L'Enfer du Nord' - 'the Hell of the North' is the nickname for perhaps the world's toughest one ...

There is a degree of contention in the polar world over which route to the Pole is toughest - from ...