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26.11.09
83rd Parallel
Today the team passed their first global waymark - the 83rd parallel. Kylie has today's PodCast.
Kylie (New Zealand)'s PodCast:
Link to Podcast
Kylie's PodCast in writing:
"Hi it's Kylie from New Zealand, it's the 24th of November, a continuation from last message (The message was actually left on the 25th. Guess she left her PDA at home - Tim, UK Support)
Position South 83 degrees 01.261 minutes, West 067 degrees 53.284.
We've been traveling for 8 hours and 10 minutes today and we've covered 11.5 nautical miles. We're traveling really well, moving well. We've got fantastic conditions for making ground and our systems are working nice and fluidly. Everyone is really happy with the progress today, a bit up beat and I've also solved the problem of how to get the protein drink to dissolve on water. It was like trying to eat polystyrene balls - really hard work trying to digest that but we've got it sorted now.
So really all working super hard to try and drink all of our allocated food and snacks for the day. It's really hard work but i think as we continue to keep working we'll get more and more hungry and eat more. we have to eat otherwise we have to carry it. Interesting times with the poo bags. Lots of stories there which I won't go into.
Everyone seems to be really well, happy. I've had a strain on the top of my left foot which has been bothering me quite a lot yesterday. I've been trying different things with my boots to sort that problem out and eventually today I changed skis with someone else and that seemed to work a treat.
I think we're all good. This weather is frickin' unbelievable. We've had hardly any wind at all, it's been cool and sunny 24-hours. We can see forever in every direction. It's incredibly beautiful. Looking for a feature to head towards can be a bit challenging. Heading into a little bit of sastrugi every now and then just to keep it intersting, make us work a little bit harder. We've come across a couple of hills but they're probably just a few metres high over 5 or 6 miles so it's hardly even a hill but when you get up on top you can look back and see the white expanse just slightly underneath you. It's magnificent. Not monotonous and boring yet still really inspiring and everyone's feeling pretty lucky to be here.
Okey doke!"
Photo by Robert Hollingworth