Ben Edwards written 10 Aug, Laptev Sea The second important thing that happened yesterday was is was Nikolai’s sixty first birthday. If you remember in an earlier blog I said that we were visited by a lady named Margaret Gorely…
Ben Edwards 9 Aug evening entrance between Kara and the Laptev Sea. A very exciting thing happened today. We reached the ice! Finally after twenty one days out of Murmansk, I think, we’ve reached the pack ice. We can only go through…
near MYS (Cape) Chelyuskin,Vilkitsky Strait, Laptev Sea Anchored for night by shore against some fast ice) 21:38 UTC 9 Aug A mixed bag of emotions today. sailing in strong winds through the night up the coast. Its amazing that just 10…
N76 31, E098 32 Pressure 1004 wind 15/20k NW water temp 3.5 outside temp 2 8/8 foggy Well, two good bits of news today. One is our permit came through from Vladivostock to be able to sail directly to Point Barrow. This is good news…
Ben Edwards, 8th Aug 01.00. Anchored Ostrov Pilota Makhotkino BEARS! POLAR BEARS! WE SAW POLAR BEARS TODAY! In the morning we got the dingy out for a test run. It took much longer than honestly it should have because the…
Ben Edwards crew, from anchored at Ostrov Pilota Makhotkino, south Kara Sea for 8 days now. Hello, so nothing happened today really but I’m expecting us to do quite a lot tomorrow. We’re going to inflate the dingy that we’ve brought…
7 August Same place, same time Winds calm and the first sun for a week. exactly a week since we arrived. The end of a mixed day…. First a Walrus swimming around the boat, while Babs was singing happy birthday to…
Ben Edwards, crewmember whole expedition 14 years old. SPECIAL BLOG POST I don’t think I’ve ever actually talked about the medical problem I have that means I’m raising money for ACT, the Cambridge university hospital charity, in blog yet, well…
Saturday evening 6th August, Nordenshel’da Archipelago just at the start of the Vilkitsky strait in the South Kara Sea Same Place, same time. Well the forecast was right, wind calmed and changed direction. Dennis’s Birthday started off at 9 am. Bunting up, card signed,…
