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…
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…
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…
Ben Edwards, anchored Nordenshel’da Archipelago just at the start of the Vilkitsky strait in the South Kara Sea Written at 0100, in my ‘evening’ I have discovered that I have managed to completely reverse my body clock. We’ve got the same light level…
Constance Difede, anchored in the Nordenshel’da Archipelago just at the start of the Vilkitsky strait in the South Kara Sea 5 August 2016 Winter arrived. It has been four days since anyone has ventured beyond the cockpit to crush a can or add…
Translated from Russian audio. During the North East Passage. Anchored at Ostrov Pilota Makhotkina 5 August 2016 Этот маршрут я уже прошел в 1998 1999 годах. Яхта Апостол Андрей и я первыми кто это сделал в истории яхтинга I’ve already…
Constance Difede, crew, from anchored in Ostrov Pilota Makhotkino After fourteen days the Arctic Ocean has shrunk. It is now the Barents Sea, Kara Sea, Laptev Sea and East Siberian Sea. Two down, two to go before the Bering Strait. As…
Ben Edwards from anchored in Nordenshel’da Archipelago, south Kara Sea Hello again. So, as I said earlier we did indeed gain more knowledge today of the ice and that that knowledge was that the ice had closed over the passage with…
