Greenland Expedition 2010

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 [...]

To be more efficient, and to avoid cleaning more than necessary, we will mix our breakfast cereal blend with boiling water directly in our eating bowls. It needs to set for a few minutes. To keep it from getting cold we are insulating the bowls using pieces of regular foam sleeping mat. This also keeps [...]

If you choose to go for a solution like the arctic bedding, where your sleeping mats and bag is kept unrolled in a full length cover on top of your sled, the bag will protrude out from the back of the sled. To prevent excessive wear on the end of the bag, you can extend [...]

After the tent is pitched, all you want to do is to get inside, light the stove and get in your sleeping bag. But before you can do that you have to unroll your foam sleeping mat and make it stay unrolled. Then you have to tediously inflate your inflatable sleeping mat. Finally you have [...]