from The Adventure Blog
Yesterday I mentioned that there were delays to the start of the 2011 Antarctic season, but ALE was hoping to get their first plane out to the ice today. Turns out there won't be any flights today either, as weather is continuing to cause problems for the teams hoping to head south soon. Earlier today, James Castrission and Justin Jones tweeted an update from Punta Arenas, where they are preparing to set out on the Crossing The Ice expedition. The two Aussie lads were expecting to head out to Patriot Hills
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from The Adventure Blog
In one of the sure signs that the impending Austral Summer is not far off, and the looming Antarctic Season with it, McMurdo Station had its first seasonal flight arrive yesterday. According to The Antarctic Sun , the first plane safely landed at the research facility after being delayed a day by an early summer blizzard. It is the first of 63 scheduled flights to McMurdo, which is located at Hut Point Peninsula on Ross Island. The station consists of 85 buildings and includes a runway, helicopter pad, and
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from Arc'teryx Latest News
***This race report was written under intense jet lag, after way too many hours of travel and intense post race fatigue & sleep deprivation!. "Remember to smile out there!" This message, posted to my Facebook wall by Peter Watson, was my mantra for almost 10.5 hours last Friday. It was good advice that dramatically changed my perception of a rather uncomfortable experience. I was running the Courmayer-Champex-Chamonix (CCC) race at the Ultra Trail de Mont Blanc (UTMB) race festival. Starting in Italy, this
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from 2010 Mountaineering Season
Yesterday started out as a hopeful day to pick up Forrest and Noah's 12-day Mountaineering course. Talkeetna Air Taxi launched in the morning and the afternoon, but couldn't quite make it to the Eldridge due to cloud cover. There were clouds obscuring the runway and not enough air flow to move them. Piloting a small single engine aircraft, in this case a single turbine Otter , the pilot has to be able to see the ground at all times. Forrest checked in numerous times giving us updates on the weather. ...
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from 2010 Mountaineering Season
Today is the start of our August 6 day Mountaineering Course and the team members are a great team already and are in high spirits. They are ready to learn and will put to use all they learn today in the mountains. They are awaiting clear skies to fly into the Alaska Range. The team listening to Instructor Matt Montavon prior to ascending the fixed lines here at AMS Jason and Hazel practicing fixed line ascention Meanwhile on the Eldridge glacier the snow is falling, it has recieved 8 inches of snow since
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from The Adventure Blog
Yesterday I posted the scary story of the runway, located at the Barneo Ice Camp, had broken under the weight of a landing plane, which has caused all kinds of trouble in the Arctic. For now, there are no planes getting in or out, and the Russians are trying to find a suitable ice patch on which to build a replacement landing strip. As I noted in that update, Britain's Prince Harry was scheduled to be picked up from the ice yesterday, but he remains with his Walking with the Wounded team as they make their
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from The Adventure Blog
So just how bad is it in the Arctic this season? We already knew that all the explorers traveling to the North Pole from the Canadian side of the ice called off their expeditions due to the extremely bad weather, but it seemed that for the most part it would be business as usual at the Barneo Ice Station. That doesn't seem to be the case however, as ExWeb is reporting that the runway at the temporary base has cracked and broken under the weight of a landing plane. As I reported earlier this week, the ...
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from The Adventure Blog
Way back in January I posted a story about Britain's Prince Harry possibly making a trek to the North Pole. At the time, he was training to do so as part of a fund raising effort for the Walking with the Wounded organization, but it was unclear whether or not his military obligations, not to mention his brother's impeding nuptials, would allow him to join the expedition. Yesterday, the team set out on their journey at last, and with Harry in tow, but the Prince won't make it to the Pole after all. Four of
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from The Adventure Blog
While the 2011 North Pole season has been a bust for explorers heading to 90ºN from the Canadian side of the world, there will still be plenty of adventurous souls that will be visiting that fabled destination this year. Most will be making a "Last Degree" journey from the Russian side of the ice, and as ExWeb reports today, the airstrip at the Barneo Station is ready to start receiving visitors . Barneo is a temporary base that is built each season to facilitate travel to the Pole. It is constructed when
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from Petzl Blog
Posted By Ueli Steck the 2011-03-21 Arrived in Nepal I feel like being in an other world. Chaotic on one side, enriching for us Europeans on the other side. Time data here are relative. I sit here at the airport of Kathmandu since 7 am. Maybe we can fly to Lukla at 10 am. The flight was scheduled for 8 am. Nobody knows exactly when we will leave to Lukla. In the past I was annoyed by these things. Today it doesn't bother me anymore. I can prepare myself to this situation. I must say that somehow I enjoy
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