South Pole solo

Camp:  South 80 57.913 West 80 02.462
Distance:  10.3 nautical miles (19.07km)
Time:   8.5 long hours
Weather:  nice and crisp blue skies and wind moderate all day at 5 knots
Snow:  terrain is crap

Tired today as the wind was about 35 knots during the night and the tent flapped very vigorously and noisily.  Then the first three hours were really tough and super slow due to soft snow and I felt very tired but I literally gritted my teeth and kept going  The terrain stayed tough all day and I didn’t get far in my journey at all.

Have decided to not get too stressed about the slow progress and I am storing away a bit of food each day from my daily rations just in case the trip takes longer than my planned 45 days (don’t worry mum and dad, I won’t run out of food.)

Thanks Tom and Lachie for your music today.

Delta Goodrem “Born to Try” was my song today … you should have heard my version on the snow ….. thank goodness no one else could hear!!

Go Glitterbugs tonight at basketball and cheerios to everyone at Elsternwick Primary School.  It was great to hear many of you when Nicole took her phone to Chloe at school for me to talk to her (hello little girl, I miss you).  Thanks kids for your enthusiasm and motivation.

Mark ‘Georgie’ George