Not your average vacation
In case we break a ski during our crossing we need a way to mend it. This involves a hacksaw, a custom hand drill, some bolts, nuts and a custom aluminium rail. We’ll describe the kit in detail after our return from the ice cap. The aluminium rail was skillfully produced by tinsmith Arne Linchausen [...]
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We are planning to update our blog on a daily basis with text and images during our crossing. To enable us to do this we need to hook up a mini computer to a satellite phone. This type of equipment is hard to come by and expensive to rent. Luckily Hugo Rolf Hansen generously agreed [...]
Before we take a brand new tent out in winter conditions we need to pitch it in the backyard to make sure it’s fully functional and to make some small modifications. Also, since this is our first tent of this particular type, we could use some practice pitching it as well. I pitched the outer [...]
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We are happy to announce that we have entered a partnership with the Norwegian tent manufacturer Helsport. They have supplied us with a Helsport Svalbard High 3 Camp, which is our weapon of choice for the crossing of the ice cap. After thoroughly evaluating the Helposrt Spitsbergen 4 Camp we decided to go for a [...]
