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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 before going down on the other side and camp near ...

DAY 14 21/05/2015 BUT WE CAN SEE THE WATER OF THE LAKE.

Challenges 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 10 hours today but we managed to go through. This i...

DAY 13 20/05/2015 LAST CHANCE.

Woke 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 place is the best. The ice doesn't like the warmth...

DAY 12 19/05/2015 FIRST ATTEMPT TO GREAT GLACIER, ABORTED.

Woke 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 up our way hoping to reach the start point of our ...

DAY 11 18/05/2015 GETTING CLOSER TO GREAT GLACIER!

Again 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 could not go out either in Le Conte or Great glacie...

DAY 10 17/05/2015 HEADING SOUTH TOWARDS GREAT GLACIER.

At this point of the expedition, we had some chances of success but we still needed to be very focused. The satellite images were precious information for navigation and they allowed us to find qui...

DAY 8 15/05/2015 TRYING TO FIND A ROUTE ON THE ICE OF DAWES.

Stikine was very special compared to other icecaps. Usually, the entrance and the exit points of icecaps are the most critical places to ski across. And the middle of the ice is basically the safes...

DAY 9 16/05/2015 30 KILOMETERS UPHILL ON DAWES.

Yesterday 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 but manage to ski freely the rest of the day on the ...

DAY 7 14/05/2015 LET’S PLAY IT SAFE.

The 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 down to Dawes area on a quite straight itinerary. H...

DAY 6 13/05/2015 SAWYER IN OUR BACK!

Weather 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 our back. We definitely needed to find out where thi...