DAY 15 22/05/2015 THE ICE CALLED US BACK. WHAT ?
What a day ! We started this morning packing our backpacks hoping to get out of the glacier. Our goal was to reach the top of a 900 meter mountain ...
Read moreWhat a day ! We started this morning packing our backpacks hoping to get out of the glacier. Our goal was to reach the top of a 900 meter mountain ...
Read moreChallenges were not over. Ahead of us was the exit branch of the icecap. We have been skiing, abseiling and struggling on Great glacier for about 1...
Read moreWoke up at 03 am again. We could definitely feel the tension that morning. We tried to be as much efficient as we could. The sooner down in a safe ...
Read moreWoke up at 03.00 this morning in order to have colder conditions. It means hard snow, less avalanches and risk of ice falls reduced. So we speeded ...
Read moreAgain great conditions here in Stikine with a beautiful weather. On the way we could have seen an optional exit point called Patterson in case we c...
Read moreAt this point of the expedition, we had some chances of success but we still needed to be very focused. The satellite images were precious informat...
Read moreStikine was very special compared to other icecaps. Usually, the entrance and the exit points of icecaps are the most critical places to ski across...
Read moreYesterday has been an amazing day, skiing for 11 hours in between camp 8 and camp 9. We used the rope in the beginning to travel through safely bu...
Read moreThe weather was still beautiful here on Stikine ice field. We started the day with the intention to ski down a narrow valley which would bring us d...
Read moreWeather was very cooperative again on day 6. We have been skiing 28 kilometers on the South part of Sawyer. This very challenging area is now in ou...
Read moreWe have been skiing rope-less for the whole morning and enjoyed the freedom of it. The weather was just perfect today! Considering our slow progres...
Read moreThe possible snow field that we saw yesterday was indeed practicable. We even got to try our skies… until we had to use crampons again and find a w...
Read moreBack to carrying. We had to get out of Sawyer ice because we couldn't find any possible way to travel. There were big chunk of ice big as cathedral...
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