85.1610N, 077.7435W

Second day and we are bushed! The ice is clumpy and we negotiated a
field of rubble that was pretty discouraging. After two hours of
pulling our heavy sledges across these pressure ridges the size trucks,
I looked up to see the same landscape for miles in all directions! We
traveled for seven hours and ended at N85:09.665 W077:44.632 or a
distance travelled of 7.09 nautical miles whuch isn’t bad on a second
day. Temps have been mostly around -34C all day until the last hour
which dropped below 40. Great grub courtesy of chef Keith. We are dead
beat and, oh,yeah, it is COLD out there! Over and out.

85.2513N, 77.7072W

Yesterday was a long, hard day for us. Lots of rubble, heavy sleds, and cold temperatures
added up to a challenging 3rd day on the ice. It’s common for the first
few days of any expedition to be the hardest as the people get acclimated and into a rhythm. We are up for the challenge and hoping
that the temperatures warm up a bit. Today saw lows of minus 46F degrees without wind chill.Our position today in degrees, minutes and seconds is N85.15.078, W 77.42.433

Check back tomorrow for another update!

85.0654N,077.7453W

We finally got the green light and take off from Eureka at 9:30. Bellow
us Ellesmere island is shrouded in a frozen blanket of ice. Soon
the coastline replaces the mountaainous terrain and annouces what we
will navigate for the next five weeks or so. Troy, our pilot, puts down
on a smooth pan of ice. Smooth is relative of course as the plane
bounces like an ice shaker until it comes to a reassuring hum. The door
opens and the cold air of the pack ice hits us like a shot of
adrenaline. I was hoping to film the plane as it left us in the white
vastness. But a suspicious ding in the fuselage will have the pilots
confer with their base and standing is cold! Keith and I bid our
farewells and start moving. It is 2:15 and our coordinates are N
84:59:861 and W077:06:940. It will take about 400 miles to get us to
the pole in an estimated 35-40 days. The euphoria is soon replaced by
the effort and the heat generated from pulling the heavy sledges. We
navigate through an endlless field of rubble the size of cars. After 4
hours and 15mn we have made 4.1 nautical miles. We are spent and after
a delish meal courtesy of chef Heger, it is time to sleep Cold out!
Over and out.