1) Decent ice, a few flat pans and no open water. 2) The knowledge that I've skied 379 nautical ...

'...please turn out the lights.' I heard yesterday that Bettina Aller (from Denmark) and her ...

Today wasn't much fun at all and at times I came perilously close to a severe sense of humour ...

More of the same really. The ice has been terrible - loads of new pack ice and pressure ridges (not ...

...I thought yesterday was a tough day. Today was ridiculous - right off the scale. An even, er, ...

There were moments earlier in the expedition when I thought getting this far would be impossible; ...

...with this picture. Is the answer: a) 'Good grief! It's so warm that Ben can ski along with no ...

As I was skiing along today, I thought back to late February when Bettina, Jean-Gabriel, Wave, ...

Exciting news from the high Arctic! I've just had to delete my entire dispatch (moaning about the ...

First of all, it's Tony's birthday - HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! Tony first emailed me, completely out of the ...

Ninety degrees north. The axis of the earth's rotation. All the lines of longitude and all the time ...

Well, things aren't much different here on the other side of the world. I'm still heading in ...

Who needs reality tv when you've got this expedition to follow, eh? It's all happening up here - ...

Oh the guilt! The shame! I often say that part of my motivation is to encourage other young people ...

For the first time in ten weeks, I'm on dry land. My runway was good enough, and Kenn Borek Air's ...

Well, it wasn't just unusually warm in the high arctic. Ottawa was glorious. The welcome, the ...