Yesterday evening, I had contact with the team, but almost everything I’m gonna write down they also put on the website as a voicemail message…

On friday, they have set up camp 3 on the following location: N67 03.701 W049 24.095.  If you have google earth, you can exactly point out their location, and when comparing it with the coordinates of point 660, the place where they entered the icecap wednesday, they have now covered 29 km in 3 days.

That is not a spectacular day distance, but when you consider the first kilometers on the icecap look like this, it is not bad!
The conditions until now have been mild: the temperature is -1, wind force 4-5 from the south, but now the team is slowly entering the large plains of the icecap, they can feel the temperature going down.

Thursday was a hard day: after leaving camp 2 they entered difficult terrain with large icebumps (see picture) . It took a lot of effort to get the sledges through there! Finally they found a way through, and via a 50 m high ice wall they managed to get on top of the ice sheet. After that, the terrain became much more flat. The spirits are still high and they are having fun together!

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