We expected it to take 10 days. Reaching the pole was the best bit andsetting foot on the ice out of the helicopter and seeing the landscapefor the first time. It's like nothing you'd see anywhere else. The firstopen water you see is spectacular. Because the water's four miles deepit's inky black.
The most difficult thing was the 10-hour days - dragging the 85 kg sledwas hard. It makes it difficult to manoeuvre, especially when there's alead. That's when the ice breaks open and then freezes over again in twodays but becomes really thin. You can walk across it but it bends. Itmade me kind of nervous. It doesn't usually break but sometimes it does.Sometimes you can see the leads forming as the ice breaks up. Sometimesas you walk the whole ice cap drifts.
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