Day 38 ; A miserable white out....

Day 38 19th December


A miserable white out….

Position: S86.4957, W085.8810.
Temperature: average – 13cWeather: Started clear, within 2 hours we had white out.

391 km to go.

We just can’t get away from this bad weather system. It seems like, it is just following us on our route.

The snow condition improved overnight and our morning began well. Sun, no wind and all the signs that we would travel a good distance.

However within two hours the weather changed. The weather system came in again from the North- East, bringing cloud cover and snow.

We just pushed hard through the miserable conditions, we were lucky that the snow had firmed up, which eased the pressure of pulling the sled.

By end of our day we returned a reasonable distance for our effort, 25.9km.

We are worried, as no one can tell us how this weather system that we are in will go.

The weather here in Antarctic so far for us is like Irish weather, we can have all seasons in one day. Well this isn’t a holiday, its an expedition. So far the weather has not been kind to us, so we just have to except what is been thrown at us and get on with the task of getting to the Pole.

we will hope tomorrow brings an improvement.

The good news is that we have hit another milestone. We are now in the 300’s and have 391 km’s to go. Lots of hard work to do yet and lots of problems to solve in the next few weeks. The team are in good spirits but loosing weight fast. As we say in Ireland, it’s not over until the fat lady signs.

Good night as we dream about good weather.

To the Pole…