Not your average vacation
Today’s first stretch brought us out of the icefall. That’s worth celebrating. The icefall has been a bit harder than we anticipated, and we’re happy that we now have it behind us. After this we moved into an area that is tilted slightly upwards, and has a flatter surface. We’ve covered 231 altitude meters and [...]
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We started the day heading southeast to get off a hillside abundant with crevasses. It looked safer further south, and we had seven good lengths in splendid sunshine. It was arduous work in the rough terrain. Because of pressure, the ice is forming waves, so it was again like walking on a frozen sea. Due [...]
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Although we haven’t covered much distance, we feel we have achieved a lot today. We walked for only 4 stretches today, since we are taking it slow these first few days. The icefall was at least as challenging today as yesterday. It was like moving uphill through a frozen sea, with waves up to three [...]
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The following updates from Terje and Christian are phoned in via the sattelite phone they’ve brought with them. They leave their messages to me in Norwegian, and I then translate to english before I post here. So if you notice a sudden drop in the language skills, this is the reason for it. Also I’m [...]
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