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The Democrats take the House and Senate and the US government suddenly recognises that diminishing Arctic ice might be having an effect on polar bear numbers, raising their status to ‘threatened’. Coincidence?

Last Wednesday I sat down for lunch with Rosie Stancer, a veteran of several South Pole expeditions and the ’97 North Pole relay. We had been on an expedition to Svalbard in 2002 and spent one particularly glorious night in a storm that snapped our tent poles as the temperature plummeted to –40. One newspaper [...]

With the possible exception of a blog post during our 2005 expedition to Greenland where Ben managed to make me look like Sid James, this youtube screencap from a video made for Ice Edge ranks as the worst picture of me on the net.
I realise that now I am opening the floodgates for someone [...]

A nice lady was wandering through a shop in the south coast, found these biscuits for sale, and gave them to me. They are apparently exact replicas of the biscuits that Scott took with him on his 1911-12 South Pole expedition. The packaging claims that the biscuits are perfect for trekking adventures, and at [...]

Frances at 76 Degrees South has been taking a break from her work at Halley station in Antarctica to visit the local penguins. She has some beautiful photographs on her site and you can find more at her flickr page where incredible Antarctic vistas, wildlife and life on an Antarctic base compete with the occasional [...]

Mr Hudson and the Library played the seminal Later. . . with Jools Holland last week, in the company of Tony Bennett, Damon Albarn’s new band and Eric Bibb. Have a listen.

Today I sat on an orange sofa and explained an idea I’d had after my front tyre exploded on the marylebone flyover and I’d had to walk the six miles to Ben’s dragging my bike and cursing my absent-minded shortage of inner tubes. I sat there in the offices of the mighty IDEO and explained [...]