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From the monthly archives: April 2006
Matthew Baldwin of Defective Yeti fame has a great article up on the Morning News about loopholes.
The Onion is possibly the most consistently funny site on the internet, but it can also be frighteningly prescient. It predicted the advent of Gillette’s five-bladed razor more than a year ago, and now Cynical-C has drawn my attention to the [...]
Life has taken a turn for the hectic here as I once again get into expedition mode. Ben and I are off to Greenland for a month for our final test and training phase before we go SOUTH and I am juggling phonecalls, kit orders and eccentric [...]
Scientists have found rivers under the ice in Antarctica. Maybe Ben and I should take the kayaks this October.
It slightly goes against the whole extreme endurance/adventure persona I have carefully crafted to say that I love the Princess Bride. However, I don’t hold a candle to this guy. This re-enactment of the Battle of Wits is [...]
The Easter weekend was expensively spent celebrating my good friend Colin McCann’s impending marriage to the beautiful Jo Nielsen in Amsterdam. After throwing go-karts around the track at 50mph and subsequently playing football against some heavy-set locals I didn’t manage to pick up any silverware. However, I managed to set one car on fire, [...]
Professor Steve Jones lives down the road from me in Camden Town and this year was invited to lecture to the Royal Society. His talk was forthrightly entitled ‘Why Evolution is right and Creationism is wrong‘. It’s bloody brilliant. Jones contrasts Western and [...]
Craig Mathieson who did the Hercules Inlet-South Pole route in 2004 is looking to start a Polar Academy in Scotland to inspire Scottish children to achieve their dreams. A trial expedition is setting off this week with a guinea pig in the form of 16-year-old [...]
Forty-Five years ago today, Yuri Gagarin blasted off in the Vostok 1 and became the first man in space. Yuri is up there on my all-time list of heroes, Ben and I believe in pushing our limits and SOUTH will certainly [...]
National Geographic Photographer Thomas Abercrombie died today aged 75. He was the first journo to visit the South Pole and worked out of some of the most dangerous places on earth. You can see some of his pictures here.
Maciej Cegłowski has written a great piece on Tierra del Fuego, an area I sailed past in 2000 and will be finally seeing this October.
The publishing business has a glorious history in Antarctica. Scott and his team self-published the first Antarctic newspaper ‘the South Polar Times‘ (Editor: Mr Ernest Shackleton) and even put out an additional magazine for the bits considered inappropriate for their main publication: ‘
In honour of my good friend Liz Mair who has deserted these shores to fight for the soul of the GOP on Capitol Hill, I give you 1,313 Libertarian quotes.(Via)
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