Greenland Expedition 2010

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 [...]

Like many expeditions before us, we have had great success with the Berghaus Yeti Extreme gaiters. These particular gaiters fits like a sock around the ski boot and closes around your leg with a zipper. In addition to fixing them permanently to our boots we have experimented with insulating them with a thin layer of [...]