Discussions

Certainly we had a much bigger flavour today than what we’ve been seeing over the last few days. It’s about -30 C today and with the wind chill it’s in the –40 to -50 C range. Because of the cold and because of the wind, we opted to do only four pushes and three stops, meaning each push was longer and the stops were shorter.

We woke up this morning and all of us were feeling the acute effects of the significant altitude. Even though we’re not as high as you might think of when being in other areas of altitude, the air at the pole is thin/stretched; it behaves much higher. It’s safe to say everyone feels like we’ve been hit between the eyes with a sledgehammer.