In April-May 2011, Antony Jinman, Duncan Eadie and myself became the first British team to traverse the Penny Ice Cap on Baffin Island, Arctic Canada. The project covered over 250km over 18 days, ascending to 2000m whilst living in temperatures down to -25C and winds of up to 70km/h.
Articles
The Polar Bear Story:During our Spring 2011 crossing of Baffin Island we came across a family of polar bears whilst traveling to our start position by snow mobile. Inadvertently one of the cubs became separated from his mother.
A -25C Wash: The last day of the expedition had arrived. I couldn’t believe it had come. Two weeks previously, with all the uncertainties and potential dangers ahead, I would have traded places with this day in a blink of an eye – now I would gladly have gone back two weeks. But just when we started to relax we walked into a blizzard and thin ice.
VIDEOS
Expedition Video 1:
This film covers the expedition in it’s entirety giving a taste of the various stages and the different challenges that we faced.
Expedition Video 2:
Our Journey’s Nick Peres has kindly edited our expedition footage creating this short film. It gives a different pace to my video showing another face to the complex nature of the expedition complimenting the other videos nicely.
The Polar Bear Story:
A short film showing the start of our Penny Ice Cap crossing in Spring 2011. To get out to our start point we travel by snow mobile over sea ice for about eight hours. During which we came across some local wildlife…
