Updates - April 13th 2010

So I've been back now from the cold for 3 weeks and it's nice to be home. I am now concious of trying to stay fit for next years expedition as it'd be all too easy to sit back and spend the summer drinking Pimms and eating burgers in the sun - OK who am i kidding i still intend to do just that but have also signed up for the Windsor half marathon in september to keep me focussed and to ensure i do get on with some training. By september our 6 month intensive training schedule kicks in (not sure where i am supposed to find 3.5-6 hours a day to pull tyres and train in addition to having a job!!) so I figure by at least having done a half marathon my basic fitness should not have left me! - aggghhhhhh.

Also other news is that sadly our team is now down to 6 and i am the last remaining girl! Clare has had to pull out of the expedition in order to further her career - something we all understand but it's sad to have her leave the team.

We had a meeting Saturday morning to talk Logistics etc and plans for the next 8 months including where we can find another £200k to make the expedition bigger and better with regards to the science etc and the possibilities (more money means more flight options and therefore more potential to achieve greater things) - anyone with any spare cash please get in touch! We have some great sponsors behind us already including Unearthed, Lucozade, Vodafone, Accenture, and Benecol but are always on the look out for more.

I'm also daily tuning in to read the blog of Dan and Amelia - a couple from the UK who are doing an unsupported, unresupplied exped to the North Pole and are now tantalisingly close to their goal having covered 300 of the 412 mile journey...follow their progress here

And finally a picture to leave you with regarding life on the ice...this was Ann Daniels, Martin Hartley, Charlie Paton on April 11th when a lead openened up in the ice they had camped on at 86°38.17.7N, 85°08.17.8W under their tent!