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.

There’s a bit of a construction boom in Antarctica at present and there are concerns at what this might mean for the environment, especially after the Antarctic Treaty runs out and all the scientific bases get converted into strip mines.

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 [...]

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.

Photographer Gregory Colbert’s site Ashes and Snow is possibly the most beautiful thing I have ever seen on the interweb.

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: ‘

Simon Coggins has just returned from two years stationed at Halley, the British Antarctic Survey base near the Ronne Ice Shelf. There are some great photos on his blog and it’s a good insight into the other side of Antarctic life.

Robot hybrids are also taking over the world of mountaineering it seems.

It looks like Ben and I are to be consigned to the scrapheap as robots take over the polar world. I, for one, welcome our new robotic overlords.

If I ask you to picture someone who has successfully reached the South Pole twice, most recently solo and unsupported from Hercules Inlet. If I also add that this person also broke the previous speed record for the route, and that they are planning an even more demanding expedition for 2007, does a certain [...]

Ben and I both managed to catch what I assume to be the Ebola virus yesterday (or whatever that monkey had in Outbreak, you know, the one off Friends). This has manifested for me in a small headcold and for Ben. . . .well lets just say if you [...]