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03.12.09
Crocodile Teeth
Land ho! The team have their first sighting of a geographical feature that isn't both flat and white. They'll now steer a course in the direction of the Thiel Mountains, cross the crevasse fields and hook up with their re-supply. Kylie has news about Reena's teeth today...
Kylie (New Zealand)'s PodCast:
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Kylie's PodCast in writing:
"Hey everyone, it's Kylie from New Zealand. Hello New Zealand, Hello the world. We are having a pretty good time here. We're actually having fun I think despite all the hard work and hard graft we're doing. We're nine and half hours on our feet everyday which is good. We're moving well and I'm enjoying it a lot.
Seven minute break every hour an a half is pretty hard. I'm finding it hard to all my food snacks and fluids down is not long enough so have to prioritize.
We're walking into the winds now. Really cold, cold wind every day and without a doubt we've got these gorilla masks on with a flap over our nose and mouth; and our goggles on so we're completely covered and we get these really cool gnarly icicles that hang down from the masks. The masks is attached and sewn onto our goggles and it looks like we have crocodile teeth. Some people get some really good icicles. I think some of the best icicles makers are my two flat mates, Reena from India and Helen from Yorkshire, UK. One of them has like leopard-seal teeth for most days and Reena, she gets like a crocodile one going and frozen hair so she looks pretty hard core.
We're just tucking into some chicken tikka massala, it's really yummy, one our favourites. Helen's having the chicken chasseur.
Just thinking of you all at the moment. I'm not missing anything terribly but I'm looking forward to a lot of stuff: swimming in the river, drinking and eating nice food. Looking forward to seeing my family, especially Eva, George and Trevor, and Donna and Callum, and, of course, Bessy, luca, mum and dad, and aunt barb and mike and all of my friends.
We're into December now. Only a month to go. Really exciting, yesterday we were walking along and we looked off to the left and we saw a big range of mountains sticking up and it was like "Woh! Where did they come from?". They're miles off to the left but they're a big range and it's given us sometihng to look at which is cool. Your eyes are always just searching for anything that's out of the ordinary flat and white."
Photo by Robert Hollingworth