Dispatches
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01
 It's Déjà vu all over again No flight, no change, no news. We were expecting to fly (finally!) at ten this morning. I set my ... |
03
 D-Day minus one... Things are looking up. It seems highly likely that we will fly tomorrow (no honestly, it ... |
04
 Let's go It's supposed to be getting warmer now, yet in Khatanga this morning it was a bone-chilling -47 ... |
05
 Alone and shreezing According to my mum (hi mum!) I used to pronounce freezing as 'shreezing' when I was a bit younger. ... |
06
 Wacky races I shared my drop off flight yesterday with Wave Vidmar, Bettina Aller from Denmark and her ... |
07
 Perspective A really tough, soul-searching day, for a number of reasons. The ice conditions are ok, with a ... |
08
 Demolition man I keep breaking things - my ski skins are coming loose, I've torn part of my left boot off, broken ... |
09
 It's grim up north... Telltale signs you've chosen the wrong holiday destination no. 12: you start using your freshly ... |
10
 Oh what a night! I'm writing this at the end of day two stuck in the tent. The bad weather seems to have blown over ... |
11
 Whiteout No easy miles today. Things started out looking good, but within an hour the headwind had started ... |
12
 There may be rubble ahead... I was psyched up for a big-mileage day today, but the Arctic had other ideas. Really nasty rubble ... |
13
 One day at a time Today is day nine on the ice. The hardest decision I've had to make so far happened a few days ago. ... |
14
 Frustration I woke up with a start, my heart pounding. What the hell was that noise? 'Shhhhlick... plumpf... ... |
15
 When the going gets tough... ...Ben gets down in the dumps. Well I was for most of the day, anyway. Overnight I'd drifted back ... |
16
 It worked! A big thank you to everyone hoping, praying and raindancing for better weather - the wind stopped ... |
17
 Tent Moose The Royal Marines have a great expression for someone that's unusually clumsy whwn living under ... |
18
 I am SO proud Not of my skiing, the mileage I've covered, or the fact that I've been out here two weeks, but of ... |
19
 Rubble trouble Incredibly, my dodgy repair to the battery charger is still working, although I suffered a ... |
20
 Crawling north Once again, the Arctic made me fight for every inch of every mile north. I've never seen ice as bad ... |
21
 Sun dog I saw a beautiful sun dog today - hopefully the photo shows it clearly enough. A parhelion is the ... |
22
 Aarrrggghh!! This is getting ridiculous. I woke up this morning to find my tent flapping like crazy. The wind ... |
23
 Sole destroying stuff I think it's a very English trait that when disaster strikes, you can still sum it up with a cheesy ... |
24
 Boot bodging The good news? I've finally passed 83 degrees and the ice conditions are improving. The bad? ... |
25
 Pea souper I woke up this morning to the thickest, cloudiest, whitest whiteoutI've ever experienced. I ... |
26
 The Broken Boot Blues I woke up this morning,feelin' kinda glad.Had I fixed my boots?Man, I thought I had. Boooo ... |
27
 Longer days It won't have escaped most of you that conditions haven't been ideal so far, and that I'm a wee bit ... |
28
 Do the locomotion I remember filling in forms for my Army medical a few years ago and one in particular that warned: ... |
29
 Frustration The weather is going nuts again - it's incredibly windy, it's snowing and much of the day has been ... |
30
 Nine hours A new record today - nine hours of skiing. The mileage wasn't spectacular, thanks to a dozen or so ... |
31
 Testing times A shorter update tonight as I need to repair the tip of one of my skis (nothing serious, don't ... |
