YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED: The next five…
Q: What are the general factors that motivate you as a team to complete the journey? (by Abdalla Yassin) A: Unfortunately our plan to cross the continent in winter is not going to happen but we all came here with different personal motivating factors. As a team, and that includes the many people in the UK and elsewhere that have helped to make this expedition happen, it was always about…
Fact of the Day:
The Antarctic ice sheet is the largest single mass of ice on Earth. It covers an area of almost 14 million km² and contains 30 million km³ of ice. Around 90 per cent of the fresh water on the Earth’s surface is held in the ice sheet, an amount equivalent to 70m of water in the world’s oceans. In East Antarctica the ice sheet rests on a major land mass, but in West Antarctica the bed is in…
