Day 43
S79 45' 39.60", W82 51' 24.84"
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There's news of a plane to take the team to the start of the last degree.
“Hi everyone, it’s Martin on day 51 of the expedition [it’s 43...].
Today, Lou did another 10k loop to keep the legs ticking over. And I went out on a practice haul with the pulk again, just to see how the Achilles was doing. It’s still a little bit tender. It’s not normal, it’s not going to be back to normal for some time; but a lot better than what it was. So we’ve got the all-clear to go back out still. We’ve been told tonight that we might be going out tomorrow. It’s all weather-dependant. At the minute, the weather at the South Pole itself is good, which means there’s a plane going out to drop some people off who are going to the South Pole for an overnight experience that ALE offer. We’re going to be able to get dropped off on the way to the South Pole to do the last degree.
The weather at the minute in the last degree area is not the best; so we’re not quite sure whether we’re going to be able to go on that flight or not. We’re going to get an update in the morning, and it’ll be either tomorrow or if not, and if it’s not tomorrow it’ll be the day after hopefully. As soon as weather improves.
We’ll give you another update tomorrow, obviously if we’re out tomorrow we’ll be updating you from the field again, having done hopefully a bit of distance tomorrow. But whenever we’re flying out it looks like we’re going to do the last degree which is 60 nautical miles to get us into the Pole. That will give us a total distance of around 400 miles - if we manage to achieve that – in order to get back in time to climb Mount Vinson.
I just want to do a shout out, and wish my godson Charlie a happy birthday for tomorrow, or today by the time you listen to this. All the best mate, I hope you have a good day. Looking forward to seeing you when I get back and taking you climbing. And I promise to come in to school at some point and do a talk about the North Pole, Everest and Antarctica for you.
Take care everyone and we’ll give you an update tomorrow.”
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