September 2013

If you ever wanted to know how the Ice Team gets their drinking water, watch this video in which team leader Brian Newham runs us through the process.

Current position: S72 51′ 13.5″     E023 33′ 50.2″ Altitude: 2752m Temperature: -43C Wind speed: 26 knots Today’s actions:  Second Cat dug out, again, and engine compartments cleared, pre-heated and started. Currently warming and will be moved tonight. Both Cats will be left running round the clock with two-hourly checks throughout night. Manual snow clearance under Science Caboose, plus…

Between 1892–1893 Carl Anton Larsen led the first Norwegian expedition to Antarctica aboard the ship “Jason” to explore the possibility of whaling in Antarctica. Larsen became the first person to ski on the continent on the Larsen Ice Shelf, subsequently named after him. He is also remembered as collecting the first Antarctic fossils.

All work and no play. Watch this video from Antarctica showing the team trying to get the Cats dug out and started.

Between 1839 – 1843 James Clark Ross a British naval officer led an Antarctic expedition in command of the vessels HMS Erebus and HMS Terror with the aim of finding the magnetic south pole. He and his crew charted much of the coastline of Antarctica. In 1841, James Ross discovered the Ross Sea, Victoria Land, and the volcanoes Mount Erebus and Mount Terror, which were named after the expedition’s…

In 1820, several expeditions claimed to have been the first to have sighted Antarctica, with the very first being the Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev on 28th January 1820. The first landing is alleged to have taken pace just over a year later when American Captain John Davis, a sealer, and his men were the first recorded humans to have claimed to…

Between 1772-1775 The British exploring expedition led by James Cook was the first to Circumnavigate Antarctica. It was also the first to cross the Antarctic Circle on Jan 17, 1773 reaching 67° 15′ S by 39° 35′ E. Despite his remarkable first circumnavigation of Antarctica, Cook unfortunately did not manage to find the southern continent itself, but came extremely close. It is believed he was…

Further snow clearance around camp and fuel scoots using the Cat that is being kept running around the clock. High winds and heavy drifting snow has so far prevented further work to get the second Cat started.

Current Location: S72 51′ 13.5″, E023 33′ 50.2″ Welcome back to all the schools subscribed and following The Coldest Journey. First of all, the entire Coldest Journey team are extremely pleased to announce that our Seeing is Believing fundraising total has now passed $1 million. Just a few weeks ago, Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Joanna Lumley and Anton Bowring visited Bangladesh to witness som…

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