REPLENISHED ICE TEAM HEAD NORTH AGAIN
Friday 20th March 2009
After a successful first re-supply of food and equipment, the Catlin Arctic Survey Team of Pen Hadow, Ann Daniels and Martin Hartley have set off again on their estimated 85 day journey toward the North Pole.
The team endured an anxious three day wait, rationing emergency supplies of their food, as bad weather repeatedly prevented the supply plane from landing alongside them.
“After being stationary for what seemed like a very long time, given the -40 degree C temperatures, it’s great to feel the snow under our feet again”, Daniels commented. “The re-supply has lifted our spirits - the only disadvantage is the weight of the re-stocked sledges”.
Daniels, Hartley and Hadow are each pulling a sledge that, replenished with freeze packed food, liquid fuel and batteries, weighs 110 kilos.
“I wish I was stronger but I’m not,” Daniels, whose sledge weighs almost double her body weight, admitted. “When we first set off my sledge was so heavy I could barely get moving. In the end Pen and Martin came to the rescue and took four bags of food off me”.
The Catlin Arctic Survey Team of Pen Hadow, Martin Hartley and Ann Daniels are in the Arctic Ocean, carrying out a scientific survey to measure the thickness of the remaining permanent sea ice.
For more information about the Catlin Arctic Survey please click here.
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