2. OUR FIRST DAY!
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Yesterday we arrived here, in Antarctica. Now we are getting ready for the part where we use
the skis, we were slipping and sliding for the first few miles. After that we got out
the kite-skis, It was so windy that I almost flew!!!!!!!!!!!
Later on we passed a cave which was crammed full of penguins, when I first looked it seemed
just like a very deep cave, But then I realised it was just some penguins.
Antarctica is mostly like a frozen desert! Enormous, slippery icebergs like giant towers of ice
floating in the almost frozen sea.
Miles travelled today:
29
temperature: -67'C
Matt and the team xxxx
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"BLIZZARD!!!"
It was upon us, I was too late, the tent had been blown
away,the blizzard was too destructive and too frosty.It was
terrifying. The wind was blowing snow into my eyes and ears,
I was in tears.The blizzard was furious and dangerous, I only
had my shovel and my pack left, I knew what I had to do...
I started digging, my arms were aching, and, at last, my
snow-cave was done.
I crawled inside with my pack and shovel and wrote this blog,
I was exhausted.
I had some chocolate and some nuts and snuggled up in my
sleeping sack to rest.
Miles travelled today: 80
temperature: -78'C
Matt and the team
My snow-cave
4. ALL ON MY OWN 1 4.1 .1 2
This morning I woke up and and yawned, this was going to be a long, hard day. I got
dressed and woke up Niklas, then I jumped out of the tent.There wasn't time for
breakfast so I clipped on my skis and started off.With Niklas by my side,we soon
came to a huge glacier that we just could not climb...
...After a look around me and Niklas discovered a narrow cave,this could be an exit!!!!!
We clambered inside, my knees bled from crawling, if I could just get to the wider
gap ahead I might be able to make a fire to make hot chocolate...
:D
Warmth spread through my body as I drank, I was ready to tackle the clamber
again!!!
As we slid across a narrow ledge I heard a tremendous crash from behind, a
ROCKFALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Suddenly I saw a limp shape on the ledge below me, Niklas had been
:o
Injured!!!!! I used a grapple hook to lower myself down.I hooked Niklas
onto the rope and when I was up I hoisted Niklas up and called the
surveillance cars, I took him out of the cave and hoped they would find him,
then I crawled back into the cave and continued the long journey
to the other side of the glacier...
At last we, well, Actually I managed to get to the other side of the
glacier I was almost at the south pole!!!!!
I only had 9 miles to go. So now I am settling down to rest in my sleeping sack.
Matt
Miles travelled: 60
Temperature: -30oc
The grapple hook I used.
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WE'RE THERE!!!
HOORAY!!!!!!!I've made it!!! We have completed the 500 miles
and Niklas is back, but he is limping from his
broken leg.I brought a cake with me for him.
Niklas is lucky to be alive, without him we wouldn't
have made it here, that would've been a shame, we
wouldn't of had the cake then. I am so happy!!!
I'll write to my family once I've eaten some cake!
We'll plant the flag once the writing is over with,
I hope that sport relief will be able to help people
with no clean water. See you back home!!!!
Matt and the team
Miles travelled today:9
Me on my snow bike Temperature: -67*C
The cake we ate.
