Temperature: minus 20°C Distance travelled: 19 km Temperature is -20°C with 30km/h wind, clear and sunny. We only walked 10.3 nautical miles today despite our best efforts. We were on the eastside of cape Kate Lady Franklin. We started at 8.40 … [Read more...] about Magnetic North Pole – Day 21
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Magnetic North Pole – Day 20
Temperature: minus 17°C Distance travelled: 21 km Today the temperature was -17°C. We had wind from south 30km/h. For the second time the wind was coming from behind us. The previous days were quite boring, but today was a very interesting day. … [Read more...] about Magnetic North Pole – Day 20
Magnetic North Pole – Day 19
Temperature: minus 21°C Distance travelled: 22 km Updates courtesy of Polar Race 2009: The weather where we need to touch down to set up Checkpoint Two is unfortunately being a bit “prohibitive”. The weather in Resolute was fine to start … [Read more...] about Magnetic North Pole – Day 19
Magnetic North Pole – Day 18
Temperature: minus 23°C Distance travelled: 28 km The temperature was -23°C and the wind blowing with 15km/h. When we walked north, the wind was really in our faces, but at this stage 15 km/h wind from the east was actually something we were able … [Read more...] about Magnetic North Pole – Day 18
Magnetic North Pole – Day 17
Temperature: minus 28°C Distance travelled: 25 km Today’s weather was similar to yesterday with -28°C and 10 km/h wind. Again the wind was making the temperature even bitterer than it should have been. The week before I had a dream that … [Read more...] about Magnetic North Pole – Day 17
Magnetic North Pole – Day 16
Temperature: minus 30°C Distance travelled: 20 km It was -30°C and we had a 9 km/h wind. Although it was minus 30, it felt much cooler because of the wind. The hardest part that day was definitely the wind and it really cut through. We woke up, … [Read more...] about Magnetic North Pole – Day 16
Magnetic North Pole – Day 15
Temperature: minus 50°C Distance travelled: 19 km The day before we had 100km/h wind, by Sunday the wind had all died down, which was very fortunate, so we decided to restart the expedition at 12 o’clock midday, and start walking again. We … [Read more...] about Magnetic North Pole – Day 15
Magnetic North Pole – Day 14
Temperature: minus 81°C Distance travelled: 19 km We stayed at checkpoint 1 and did a lot of admin, which was very lucky as we had 100 km/h wind and the apparent temperature dropped to -81°C. Which is about 100°C colder than in the Middle … [Read more...] about Magnetic North Pole – Day 14