tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64064092778251787252024-03-05T08:22:23.129+01:00CIRCLING GREENLAND 2014 & More...4300km of Greenland plateau travelling by means of windKarin Moe Bojsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05000519052310855169noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6406409277825178725.post-1882037285006843992017-06-22T21:42:00.002+02:002017-06-25T20:45:46.724+02:00Expedition IceRiver 2017 Another Windsled Expedition, <a href="http://greenland.net/windsled/project/" target="_blank">The IceRiver 2017</a>, completed<br />
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Read all about the Windsled and the 9th Windsled Expedition IceRiver 2017 <a href="http://greenland.net/windsled/" target="_blank">here</a> and also the 8 previous Expeditions in Greenland and Antarctica.<br />
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The Windsled even finally made it to the Danish News <a href="https://ing.dk/artikel/spektakulaer-vindslaede-viser-vej-klimavenlig-klimaforskning-199976" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank">Ingeniøren</a></h3>
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<br />Karin Moe Bojsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05000519052310855169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6406409277825178725.post-64115717300439915492016-07-06T14:30:00.000+02:002016-07-06T14:30:18.174+02:002016 Ice Cap Summit Expedition completed <br />
The 8th Windsled expedition completed. In total 1870km from Kangerlusuaq over the Icecap summit at altitude 3240m to the east coast near Tasiilaq and back to Kangerlusuaq. <br />
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Plenty of challenges mostly caused by very difficult wind conditions. However the objective of the expedition testing the newest prototype of the Windsled and its ability to navigate on the icecap carrying 2T and a crew of 6 was a success, along with completing various scientific test.<br />
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Link to Official Expedition site for the <a href="http://greenland.net/windsled/" target="_blank">Windsled</a> including expedition diary.<br />
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Nice piece on the expedition in <a href="http://www.explorersweb.com/" target="_blank">Explorers web</a> <br />
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<br />Karin Moe Bojsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05000519052310855169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6406409277825178725.post-28049249662794034122016-05-12T10:29:00.002+02:002016-07-06T12:41:34.431+02:00Greenland Ice Summit Expedition 2016We are off for a new Expedition with The <a href="http://greenland.net/windsled/project/" target="_blank">Windsled Project</a> 15 May 2016.<br />
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This will be the 8th expedition testing the lastest proto type of the Windsled for <a href="http://greenland.net/windsled/ws-2017-2018-antarctica-circumnavigation/" target="_blank">Antarctica Circumnavigation 2017-18</a><br />
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2000km/40days from Kangerlussuaq over the Icecap summit 3205m (Summit science camp) to Isortoq and back to Kangerlussuaq. <br />
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<br />Karin Moe Bojsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05000519052310855169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6406409277825178725.post-77019425850687949412015-06-11T19:29:00.001+02:002015-06-11T19:32:13.599+02:00National GeographicThe Windsledge Project got a 22 page article in National Geographic Adventura (Spanish edition).<br />
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Karin Moe Bojsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05000519052310855169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6406409277825178725.post-40125026402813557332014-11-19T11:09:00.000+01:002015-01-15T11:10:40.222+01:00News in ExplorerswebA nice description of the three expeditions circumnavigating Greenland in 2014, written by 'Wings over Greenland'<br />
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Karin Moe Bojsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05000519052310855169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6406409277825178725.post-56757756674728011672014-09-24T20:52:00.000+02:002015-07-15T20:43:10.293+02:00Windsledge tracks crossed on skis<h3>
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Ski crossing Isortorq to
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In the biggest white room 6 little
dots snakes their way through a thick white carpet. Once in a while the head of
the snake drops off and slides down attaching itself to the tail, as a new head
pushes forward head down finding extra strength and the snake continues eating
meter after meter. White cords are sticking out of the dots heads, when needed delivering
dreams, flow, distraction and power. <o:p></o:p></span></i><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">This is where nothing exist but the
grandness of the white space and the sliding of one foot after the
other in a lulling rhythm, until the sun starts its performance on the horizon
and they can finally rest. <o:p></o:p></span></i><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">This is where a cup of hot water
during a break and eating crushed potato chips with a spoon gives you the
biggest pleasure and laughs are frequent and easy. <o:p></o:p></span></i><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">This is where no one needs to explain,
everyone is longing for the finish and everyone is dreading the finish, as they
know they will long back as soon as it is reached.<o:p></o:p></span></i><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">This is the ' Kamelose' Greenland
Crossing deep into their adventure.<o:p></o:p></span></i><br />
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successful crossing in every sense, thanks to a great team with lots of humour.
After being dropped off by boat near Isortorq 65km south of Tasiilaq, we<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>jumped, sprinted, skipping the pulks across
the melting streams and zigzagged our way past the crevasses up the
icefall reaching the plateau. Here we met unusually warm temperatures for the
year, heavy snowfall, deep and wet snow clotting to our skis making the pulks
very heavy to pull. This made the progress in the beginning very slow delaying
us quite a bit. But the team was strong and ones the condition got better we
made a big effort to catch up with lost time, with days of effective skiing
from 9 up to 11 hours and 34km a day. The weather threw everything it had on
us, from sneaky freezing wind getting in where it shouldn’t, coming from all
directions to storms having us stay in the tents, but also kindly gave us
stunning sunny days with powder condition making the pulks fly. Going down the
icefall to Kangerlussuaq was epic and even trying to read how Bengt navigated
through the never ending icy maze, that didn't seem to want to let us through,
I never figured out how he managed this. This really requires skills. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I
had to pinch myself twice when the GPS showed we were crossing the invisible
tracks set by the <a href="http://circlinggreenland2014.blogspot.dk/2014/07/full-expedition-posts.html" target="_blank">Windsledge Expedition</a> less than two months ago…very surreal
and feeling very lucky getting to experience both.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Why we ended calling the
crossing 'Kamelose' a word shouted out very often during the trip… well a Norwegian
joke on the Danish language on Youtube that some may get (in a kind
of English) <a href="http://youtu.be/s-mOy8VUEBk"><span style="color: blue;">Kamelose</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><u><span style="color: blue;">.<o:p></o:p></span></u></span></span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pictures</span></strong>: <a href="https://plus.google.com/photos/108205688207481884933/albums/6063091844604775825?authkey=CNbS8-C8zYnBLA" target="_blank"><strong>Photos GRL Crossing 2014</strong></a></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Daily updates and more pictures from
the crossing <a href="http://www.ousland.no/category/greenland-fall-2014/" target="_blank">Ousland.no</a></span></i><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><em>Also</em></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">check out Zac & Josh's cool project <a href="http://www.4caps.kiwi/"><span style="color: blue;">4Caps</span></a>.</i></span></span><br />
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During the trip the wind pattern and surface condition will be checked for a possible more commercial route for the Windsledge.Karin Moe Bojsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05000519052310855169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6406409277825178725.post-68190681415115140212014-07-22T20:12:00.000+02:002015-07-15T20:44:05.196+02:00Actual Route<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Actual route (as the crow flies) circumnavigating the Greenland Ice cap </span><br />
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the daily updates I wrote during the expedition and was instead limited to a
scribble of 160 characters pr. message, most written with cold hands in a very lively
" bumpy" tent, on a tracking device were you have to play the Tetris
game to spell your way through a message. Hence the somewhat strange text
and abbreviations. The blog also got spammed, so apology for some odd
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few pictures and videos. They are as I wrote them on the ice,
so those of you I know who usually can’t help them self with the red pencil,
please bear with my grammar and spelling.<o:p></o:p></span></em></span></span></div>
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night. A bit too cramped for me, so I bivied out leaving the tent to the guys
and also to enjoy one last sunset and sunrise. The night turned out to be very
windy and I had to retreat to the pilot tent sleeping on top of the kites. As
we woke up, it was a strange feeling not having to check the wind direction and speed to decide which kite to use. We woke early as the helicopter was
to pick us up at 10. A quick breakfast and then we started to disassemble the
tents and sledges. It took us around 3 hours, meanwhile the snow just got
softer and softer having us step into the under layering water. The Sikorsky came
as the weather started to deteriorate, so we hurried to load all equipment and the sledges into the
helicopter and off we went. The very kind pilots had been so farsighted to our
needs and supplied us with Coca Cola, Pringles and Kit Kat…. they know what you
crave for after almost two months on the ice.</span></div>
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quickly discovered we had stopped just in time as the ice down to Kangerlussuaq
was scattered with melting streams, lakes and big big crevasses. Very surreal
to think that in about 10 weeks this is the area I will have to go through
again coming down the ice after a crossing on skis. Hopefully the water is gone
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Flying over the rolling hills around Kangerlussuaq was
surprisingly pleasant for the eyes. To see something green and stepping out of
the helicopter suddenly having smells again, was a bit as a slap in the face of
nice stuff. Funny how you don't know you've missed something before you have it
again.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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was a big disappointment. After 8 weeks of no washing wearing the same clothes there
was no hot water!!!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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ox steak at the Rowing club restaurant, flushed down with exceptional good locally
brewed black berry beer. We were then all toast, but Hugo and Ramon manned up
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As forecasted the wind came and what a wind!!. It starting
out slow ( 80m2 kite) having M+E do 100km in 6 hours (...my 6 hours of tricky sewing
of the kite held :) ).
Then Hugo and I took over and starting with the 60m2, with the wind increasing
slowly for some very smooth and fast sailing. Had a minor 2h downtime changing
kites, but then we did 15h of nonstop sailing with the little handkerchief
20m2. We were easy doing 35-40kmh in average which we allowed ourselves as the
surface was so soft and without sastrugi. Had some really fast sessions doing
up to 54kmh which is of course way too fast as we are just sitting on top of a
cooler box steering. We had 3h going more or less blind in whiteout doing 35-45,
again a tiny bit hazardous thinking about it. The only thing making us realize how
fast we were actual going was the gps as it felt so very smooth. Last bit before
stopping had us going really fast over a very flat stretch passing DYE2 with a
distance of 19 km. As we wanted to make use of the wind, we did not stop
by for a visit, even knowing there would be people from the summer science team
there. Before we knew it, we had suddenly done the last 412km and was close to
our starting point almost 2 months ago. Manolo and Eusebious was waken up and
we did the last stretch all together from the pilot sledge.</span><br />
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water. The sailing became very heavy as the snow got soggier and ended having
the quick release go off by itself. Stepping of the sledge we sank half a meter
into very wet snow. As this will just become worse this is then our final point.
We are now resting and celebrating and will tomorrow morning arrange for pickup
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on, iPod charged and pocket full of jelly babies and another night out on the
icecap, this time heavy snow soon came down only with a pause showing another spectacular
sunrise. As much as I love these escapes, it's getting frustrating not moving.
And it’s defiantly not easier that we are so close to our goal. However weather
forecast looks promising now, with south-east wind tomorrow at noon. Crossing
all fingers and toes.<o:p></o:p>
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night with entertainment of yet another stunning sunset and sunrise. Morale in
the team a bit low as we are now so close to finishing but haven't moved in
three days. We only need to go to the other side of this Dome that is our
southern point, about 50 km straight west, and then there should be wind to
carry us the last bit up north. But forecast doesn't look too good. Maybe 50km
of man hauling should be a choice now? It's only about 120kg pr person so it's
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No progress this night Temp has dropped again to -15 so am not
exactly exited now having just spend 6 hours sewing a 1m tear in our most used
kite. But jobs done and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>we are now just
waiting for another direction of wind so we can make a u-turn and then go north
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N63"55' W43"15', 2587m, 145km, total 3476km<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bored waiting for wind Hugo and I paid DYE3 another visit. Found
the Rec room, played a round of table football and billiard, tested some 25yrs.
old Pepsi and Pringles (this Expedition did not bring any pringles! Big mistake
as this in my book is mandatory). Then we put a coin in the wind machine and
went out started up the sledge and did 145km in 9 hours with perfect terrain,
soft snow, small sastrugis and a strong N wind. Unfortunately we had to stop
at N63"55’ as we now have to go more west. So now waiting for different
wind direction to carry us west. Manolo discovered a 1 m long tear in our most
used kite the 80m2 when taking it down. A bit of a disaster as it is in
principle beyond repair. Still we have to try fix it as we will probably need
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N65"10' W43"49’, 2475m, 80km, total 3331km<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some nice sailing in the beginning through some amazing
light ending with a whiteout. Spooky having DYE3 appear in the mist. We almost
misted it as we were given wrong coordinates and had a whiteout. We managed to
find an entrance through the dome climbing a few snowy hills. We explored the station
that was abandoned in 89, for some hours with all its remains of personal
effects and food left in the fridge. The table was set for Christmas and lots
of food that had been prepared as if just to be served was left in the kitchen.
DYE3 is one of 52 closed down ‘early defence warning system ' stations left by
US. Most go via DYE1 when doing a w-e crossing, but this one is rarely visited.
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Absolute vacuum this night so no progress. The good thing is,
I got to go out on another ski tour all night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Just amazing when the tent has disappeared having 360dgr of icecap to
myself, feeling really lucky to be able to do this.</span><br />
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N65"47' W42"56', 2288m, 28km, total 3251m<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Had hoped to make it to DYE3 tonight for a bit of
sightseeing, but we struggled with the few puffs of wind and only did 28km in a
snowy whiteout. Forecast not too good either the next few days. Really warm to,
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N65"57 W42"29', 2191m, 132km, total, 3223km<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A bit of good wind came and so did 135 extreme bumpy km. Big
magic moment right on the latitude of
the Arctic Circle when changing kite size at 2am. A full bluish moon and the
sun just trying to set again, bouncing on the horizon showing off all its red colours….got
totally paralyzed looking at it and almost wished we couldn’t get the kite up.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We came across two old camps from previous groups crossing
the icecap,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>spotting the snow walls from
a long distance,. Actual one camp could be smelled before spotted as the not so
nice remains had been exposed sending a distinct odour our way. Two terns came
by the tent while eating breakfast. We are now only 105km from the coast and
about 105km to DYE3 that is our next waypoint.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>The Icecap</strong> -You would think that after more than 40 days on the icecap
you would be very tired of starring at the same flat and white landscape with
no obstacles for variation. Not the case, the eyes fast learn to see all the
many variations, valleys, sun/ shadows, the ever entertaining millions shapes
of the sastrugis and the funny tricks by the eyes seeing ice falls, land and
big lakes, and keep finding it fascinating. What an amazing place the ice cap
is. Already looking forward to going back in two months’ time :) :) :)</span><br />
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N66"52' W40"37', 2172m, 30km, total 3091km<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Again the wind is so teasing us and not sticking to the
weather forecast. We are supposed to have really good wind from north brining
us on the highway down south. We've passed the latitude of our beginnings and
now only have less than a 1000km loop left down south. On our good days this
would only take 4-5 days, but looks as we are not getting off that easy. With
the last days pace it's going to take 15-20 days. Way too hot to day 0C and
very sticky snow. The tent is an absolute hellhole to sleep in now. It’s
designed to retract the heat of the sun mainly for use in Antarctica with no
ventilation in the ceiling only the entrance, that we cannot open while we are
moving. So from last week wearing as many layers as possible in the sleeping
bag, it's now to stripped off on top of the bags sweeting bullets.</span><br />
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N67"06' W40"15', 2263m, 28km, total 3061km<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Spend all day yesterday taking down the tent looking at the
damage of the tent sledge. Several crossbars were missing and practically all
nuts worn out. All got fixed and with all ripped kites stitched we were ready
to do some km at midnight were the wind was to pick up. After devouring on a
very successful experiment of making a steam cake in a pot using pancake mix,
we were ready. But the Weather forecast didn’t hold, very week Wind and we didn’t
get the 80m2 up before after trying for 4 hours. Total only 30km. As a comfort
there was a stunning full moon and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a sun
trying to set just bouncing off the horizon...absolutely mesmerizing. Very warm
could stand by the kite waiting for wind just in three layers.</span><br />
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N67"18' W39"50', 2310m, 82km, total 3033km<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With the wind turning again coming from south and all over
the place, we still managed to move 82km. However the tent sledge that has been
looking not to good the last week and no one dared to take a closer look at
what was going on under the tent, has finally collapsed. Big sections of
crossbars are missing. So a day of repair instead of sleep. Think this could
have been avoided as we could have looked at it<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>and done running repairs<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>when we didn’t
have good wind conditions, before the whole thing collapses and we have to
spend an entire day when the wind is actual good ( came back during the
morning) ...so a bit waste if time.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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to do a big loop that requires 1,80m arm span, it pulled me frontal out of the
sled into the pulley robes. Fortunately we were hardly moving so no harm done.
But will now leave the big M to Hugo when knowing we have to make a lot of loops..I
know my limits.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another stunning night with perfect conditions. A night of
bling as humidity was high making everything sparkly even the kite lines was
glittering. Not to many repairs, one ripped kite, to start with and fun sailing
with the smaller kites 30-20m2. Crossed some ski tracks that must be Team
Cornelius as they are very close. A little celebration of doing more than 200k
in one day since the west coast in form of Danish pastry. </span></div>
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total did 165km. The small kite collection are being aired now which makes it
much more fun to kite. Used the 20m2 most of the night. The sastrugis are
getting pretty big now and had me fly of the pilot seat a couple of time
surfing them to fast. Managed to hold on to the steering handle though and didn’t
drop the kite.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ohh ....and we have
now passed 2/3 of our route yeahaaa !!</span><br />
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amazing things that comes in a million shapes, never get tired looking at them.
We use them for navigation, surf them and get really annoyed with them when the
kite lines are caught in them, making a take off very difficult. They provide
hours of entertainment just looking at their many shapes when sailing and keeps
us awake as they make the ride very bumpy and a big challenge to sleep in our
moving home, when you get air knocked out of you every minute going over bigger
sastrugis with high speed. In Spanish they are categorized as sharks, tiger
sharks, sardines, school of sardines .... <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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quick all meals in one go and off we went. Lots of strong wind but nothing in
the upper layers. We had the usual technical problems, broke a new repaired
kite, changed kite size 3 times and didn't even make it to the turnaround point
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shifting winds the last couple of days carrying snow and with much higher
temperatures and will probably stay like this all the way in the south and
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</span><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">Very slow start with difficult wind and another broken kite
to be sowed. Wind finally became stable when M+E started and we did 116km in
total. Really nice with some proper progress. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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300m from the sled for signal to set up the kite. A little lonely lost
migrating sparrow swivelled around me, sat by my feet looking a bit bewildered
at me before heading south.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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one of Greenland's many Spectacular gems - good memories.</span></span></span><br />
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up the 80m2, we found a hole in the kite, so down with it and on to repair
business. Sewing the kite for a few hours, not the favourite thing to do for
the fingers. Did 33km and changed to the 24m2 as there was a lot of wind from N
in the upper layers. M+E did another 34km. Tricky and fun navigation trying not
getting to close to the coast. Wind varied a lot and in different layers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The days are getting warmer and the tent is
getting unbearable hot to sleep in when sailing. The cargo sled keeps taking a
lot of beating and needs new knots every day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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this night. We figured the tracks Hugo saw yesterday must have been plane
tracks not ski/pulk tracks. The science plane from the Summit science camp
makes trips in the area.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="color: black;">Some really nice sailing this night. Clear blue sky followed
by fog and the twilight zone making the kite disappear forming a lot of ice on
the kite lines, then a nice sky with very different cloud formations than
usually, guess it’s due to being closer to the coast. As the other days there
are more valleys making the plateau look very different. Hugo also said he saw
ski tracks, a bit strange as it can only be team Cornelius or Dixie but they
were not supposed to be this high up on the plateau. Strangely as it is getting much
warmer now it was a very cold night, both Hugo, Ramon and I had to jump off the
sledge a couple of times and make some speedy runs to get the blood flowing.
The wind unfortunately died when M+E took over and they didn't really make any
km. Another tent pole snapped, not looking too good should we hit a storm if the
poles can't even take the movement while on the go. Pancakes for breakfast and
some sips of rum to boost morale and to celebrate reaching the altitude of 3000m!!</span></span></span></span></div>
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snailing<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>our way through the last 5 days
and did <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a respectfully 122 km. Plan was to
take a risk (bigger sastrugis and getting caught between land)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>going lower and closer to the coast to catch
a better wind. But it turned out we could keep the bearing and actual reached
our highest point so far 2929m. ...Moral super high today <span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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more problems keeping warm with the wind coming from the side cooling us
a lot when we sail and the sun in our back not giving any warmth. It's not even
that cold but humid and yesterday night my hands got so cold I couldn't pilot at all.
Even caught myself a tiny frostbite under one eye (was wearing googles &
facemask!!) So going to try force feet myself the seal fat as butter is low.
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</span><span style="color: black;">Reached Highest altitude so fare 2800m !<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="color: black;">You know progress is slow when to keep warm or to keep from
falling asleep, you take a slow jog around the sledge while it is moving . Only a few hours of progress, no wind at all.
Weather forecast don't look to good either. Could be that our strategy of
staying very high on the plateau is now biting us in the behind as we have
cornered ourselves in an area with very little wind. Our support in Madrid is
advising us to go more east taking the risk getting stuck in the narrow channel
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</span><span style="color: black;"> Could do with another solo ski trip again now, just to escape a bit
from the no progress blues and little Spain where it is never quit. The only
time the Spanish guys are not talking is when they are sleeping <span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span>,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>great match with two Scandinavians who don’t
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</span><span style="color: black;">It's getting warmer but still managed to get a
frostbite patch on one index finger turning blackish. Very annoying, I really try to take care
of the fingers, but there's just not enough blood flow in them for what we are doing. Took another refreshing snow bath today (wearing mittens).</span></span></span></span><br />
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bearing. So team a bit blue. That we have now spend a
month on the ice is also starting to show, everybody is more quiet when we have
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</span><span style="color: black;">So frustrating now, seems a pattern the last couple of days,
starting the first kite takes for ever and when finally going the wind soon drops
and turns. Digging deep to find the inner zen... Started the shift by sorting
out 8 broken small lines in the new 50m kite we just tested and was going
really good with 90 dgr upwind. Repair will take a lot of time so it have to
wait, then setting up the 60 m2, one kite line robe snapped, making a total
mess of one 300m kite line taking 2 hours to sort out.....deeeeep breath! and
then we start the whole setting up the kite process again.</span></span><br />
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</span><span style="color: black;">Winds not to favourable, could not hold the bearing with a
SW wind. We tried one of the new kites and was able to go 90 dgr up wind. Very
good, but the kite is more difficult and heavier to handle as it is meant for a
different type of kite system. Then finally we broke one of the smaller lines
of the kite, So not much progress again today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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-</b>Fingers have had a tough year starting with some very mild frost nips in
the Himalayas just to get worse nips in Norway. And now daily trying to make
them work without any feeling left in the tips, doing the never ending repairs
and tying untying knots, all not possible with mittens or heavy gloves. Worst
is the first 5 minutes after a piloting session changing to co-piloting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then I go very quiet for about 5 minutes
trying to get some life back in the fingers while fiddling with
the gps and big mittens to check bearings <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(not whining, but its quite painful and
getting worse every day). No mittens seem to be able from keeping my fingers
going total dead when piloting. Guess having the arms raised above the heart
and needing to grip hard to hold on to the steering handles is not the best
positions if you can’t get the blood flowing. Fingers defiantly need a rest and
some TLC to recover after this trip.</span></span><br />
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kite of the day. First the quick release went off accidental making an utter
mess of the lines that took an hour to sort out. Second attempt both kite
assembling robes broke for unknown reason (at least a variation to broken kite
lines or pulley lines) and again a line mess. Third time we needed to
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starting. A typical day on the ice... Requiring a lot of patience. Cold night,
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kite changes from 60 down to 20 and up again. The heart of the kite system the
pulley has taken a beating and is working very bad. Balls falling out making
the steering very difficult and hard. The pulley robe keep getting stuck. Not too
good as the spare pulleys brought are apparently also broken. Looong way to go
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slept and tried to distribute some weight from the cargo sledge. Wind only
strong enough for two hours of sailing…. very slow. M+E also snailed there way
on their shift. Temperature very warm, -8c at 19 o'clock. Spotted two terns
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but at least we made it past N77, a big breakfast followed by double dinner was
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Cornelius stuck somewhere NE of us seem to have come across big sastrugis and
broken all their kites and apparently are mentioning needs of evacuation in
their blog, worst place for that too. Team Dixie has not made any updates last 7
days. Seems as we has chosen right in keeping as high on the icecap as
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</span><span style="color: black;">Wind finally turned to the right direction coming from north
and M+E could start sailing. The wind speeded up when H+K took over and we were
down to a 12m2 kite in 70 kmh wind. The wind carried a lot of snow with it, so
much we had to go down to a 150 m line as I totally disappeared in the snow
when trying to set up the kite 300m from the sledge. To take advantage of the
wind window we have been going nonstop 4X11h with only crackers for
food.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The cargo sledge has started suffer, probably do to the Teflon sheets we removed to use on the pilot
sledge and also because the lateral pull really take it out on the sledge.
Nearly lost one box of food and a bag of fuel. Spotted a little lost black
sparrow. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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waiting for wind. As we are divided into two shifts, one shift now sleeps in
the tent and one sails or if there is no wind, just wait outside to be ready if
the wind shows up (tent to small to be use by both shift as original planned).
This means some really long ours especially if there are no repairs to do.
Luckily the pilot tent can be closed a bit giving some shelter from the cold
and wind. The wind never came and unfortunately I couldn’t even go on another ski as my skis
are now used to support the tent that needed some extra support.</span></span><br />
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</span><span style="color: black;">Surreal night, no sailing so at two in the morning while the
rest of the team were sleeping, I went for a 6h ski. Going in to the
sun, the tent soon disappeared and I had the top of the world to myself, 360dgr of awesomeness, white blanket, blue
blue sky and bright bright sun. Was followed back by my own shadow as company…….could
have continued forever :) :) :)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another try of a bit of progress. H+K did about 30 km in 6
hours, painfully slow. Two of the tent
poles got damaged either do to the movement during travel or too much stuff inside
the tent while g. Weather forecast not too good with south wind lasting to tomorrow
midnight. Exceptional warm thinking about what latitude we are on. Still pretty
cold though sailing during the early morning hours with the sun in the back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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were starting to fantasize of all the ways you can eat toasted rugbrød (Danish brown
rye bread). Food cravings has started to set in.</span><br />
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a kite up.</b> This can take anytime between 20 min and up to 3 hours depending
on how it was packed being taken down, if it's the first kite of the day or if
the previous kite crashed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As kite
changes can slow down the daily progress for hours, It is therefore absolutely
forbidden to put down a flying kite unless it has to be swapped for another
size or when having a longer rest. During team shift the kite is therefore
being kept in the air in neutral position, which can be quite challenging in powerful
winds. So it often happens that the sledge starts going when someone is taking
a pee, a bit of a strange feeling as it usually takes a while before they can
stop again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If it's the first kite of the day, the wind is checked, size
decided and one prs plod<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the 150 or 300
m depending on line chosen ( guess work of in what layer the wind is) with the
kite a shovel at the same time laying out the two kite lines. Then the kite is laid
out in the correct wind direction, purring snow on the edges to keep it from
taking off. The lines from the kite untangled if not done when taken down. This
can take up to 1hour if it's all spaghetti (usual after a crash). Cold job for
the fingers, tying up tiny knots. When the kite is done and attached to the
lines, hand signal to the pilot who hopefully can get the kite up with a little
help lifting the head of the kite. If everything goes well ( 50% of the time)
the kite gets up and the sledge starts coming towards you. Then you start to
run tward the sledge and throw yourself on the sledge while moving. If not
hitting the pilote sledge which can be<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>quit tricky if the speed is high then you have to throw yourself on the
cargo sledge and the crawl back jumping on to the pilot sledge. Often things
doesn't go so well, do to change in wind direction or wrong choice of starting
angle or kite... Then the only thing to do is start all over again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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kite crash is followed by a quick release of the kite , meaning the whole kite
pulley system with the kite and lines are detached from the sledge often flying
away a great distance. Then you go run for the kite ( or trekking if totally disappeared,
bringing your gps). When the kite is found, the whole process of setting up the
lines and kite starts again after entangling the lines that are usual in a
mess.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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suddenly to powerful or if the pilot makes a wrong move or it releases itself
do to some rope getting caught. This last one can be quite painful if you’re
not quick enough to throw the steering handle to the side. Then you get a big
whiplash on your fingers sending your mittens flying (my mittens have been
flying a lot). So all in all it requires lots and lots of patience getting the
kite to fly...quite demanding when you are an inpatient person who just want to
go go... As the strain on the sledge and kite system are so big do to our
weight, we often also have to reposition the sledges one by one for a better
starting angle, adding another 30-45 min to the process.</span></div>
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</span><span style="color: black;">Starting at 24:30, H+K started in S/SW sailing with lateral
pull ( moving the kite pulley system to one side ), this worked well without
tearing the sledge apart and we could go about 50- 60 degree to the wind with
the 60 m2 kite. Wind was weak and we only did 7 km in 2 hours. Changed to the
big monster 80, but couldn't get it going as the wind turned.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="color: black;">Took a snow bath today, very refreshing probably not much
cleaner and almost killed the toes as I forgot to bring something to stand on.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="color: black;">No sailing this night. Escaped the cramped, snoring confinement
of the tent and bivied on top of the kite bags. Best sleep so fare. Wind turned
a bit towards SW so we are going to give it a try and sail with some lateral
pull (kite pulley system mounted to the side of the sledge instead of centre front)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="color: black;">As the Spanish way is being a bit dramatic, I learn a lot of
Spanish swear words. Most things not going exactly as planned usually has to be
accompanied with verbal outlets. The most typical phrase used would be -<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mierda puta marde.</i></span></span></div>
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N79”42’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>W41”19’, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2212m, 143km, total 1465 km<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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</span><span style="color: black;">Started at 4 in the morning. Good conditions very bumpy,
small hard sastrugis, 60m2 kite both shift. H+k started and did 56km in 5h.
M+E did 6h but drifted too much toward east, now making it very difficult to
turn south keeping away from the coast on the east. Even only 32km from N80 it
is too risky now to continue north as we may strand and not be able to navigate
down the east coast with the bearing we would hit N80 with. So waiting game now
for some NW wind to start carry us south.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="color: black;">The weight of the sledge is so heavy that our sailing range
is limited to 45 dgr to the wind instead of 90 or even 110 as expected we could
do with the new kites or shifting the position of the kite pulley system. But
unfortunately the sledge suffers a lot from the forces that the heavy weight
enforces. This limits our progress substantial and is going to make it even
more difficult to navigate along the east coast where we cannot afford to drift
too much to either E or W.</span></span></div>
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</span><span style="color: black;">We did not get going before 4 in the morning, very long cold
day of repairs. H+ K did 4h but did not do a lot of km as there was something
wrong with the setup, same problem as yesterday for M+E. We were snapping kite
lines as twigs?. M+E
manage to do 100 km in 7 h, but deviated too much towards west for us to be
able to reach N80. The choice is now to wait for a better wind direction or
just start heading east not reaching our goal of N80. We need to do some major
repairs to the pilot sledge where the cross beams are coming of, before going
again. So maybe the change of more favourable wind direction will come during
that time.</span></span><br />
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expedition</b> is a bit different than what I'm used to on expeditions. As we
are not limited too much by weight, half our hot meals are being cooked. For
some reason this has landed on my lap, which is okay as it is then much quicker
and then I'm sure what is cooked is something I like, so not too bad. The rest
of the hot meals are freeze dried food. Unfortunately not the frieze dried we
ordered from Fuzion Food<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(best on the
market) as the delivery got stuck in Belgium and didn’t get to CPH in time for take
off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Breakfast is very Spanish, just
biscuits... But Hugo and I who needs a more substantial breakfast manage to get
some oats with us. Snacking is Spanish ham, cheese and knækbrød (Scandinavian
hardbread).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Must have brought 30 kg
cheese with us. Food for when we are sailing is nuts, cereal bars and ...27 kg
of Greenlandic food consisting of; dried cod<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(very good) dried ammasets a small sardine like fish ( not so good) seal
blubber ( ….a very required taste) and dried whale and musk ox (pretty good but
tough). So in all we don't go hungry, lots of food. Only problem is, as <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>we are doing shifts were its not really
possible to eat and are therefore eating all meals at the same time in a period
of 2-3 hours when we are not moving. Some start with the hot meal and continue to
lunch and then breakfast. I usually start with breakfast as I just woke up, then a hot meal and then try to find room to squeeze in the cheese, ham and hard bread, if not hiding it in my squirrel bag for later( have to or the other will eat it) .</span></span></div>
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the cargo sledge had also lost some crossbars and another tent pole broke. The
wind has now come back but it looks like we have to spend the day doing repairs.
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probe 3m down a small drilled hole in the ice. So got to spend 3h digging a 3 m deep hole to retract
the device. Pretty hard job as there was layers of blue ice.</span><br />
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the cold night sailing with 5 layers. 1<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">st</span></sup> and 2nd layer super warm
and 'odour' free from </span><a href="http://www.aclima.no/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Aclima</span></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #7030a0;">. </span>Keeping feet toasty with a pair </span><a href="http://www.alfasko.no/index.php?option=com_content&view=featured&Itemid=834" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of Alfa</span></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> North Pole extreme ski boots paired
with 5 mm felt liners, heavy wool socks a garbage plastic bag and thin wool
liners. For the very cold nights sailing, same set up but changing the Alfas
with a pair of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>bigboots; heavy mega 5cm foam boots specially developed by </span><a href="http://www.altus.com.es/homepage.aspx" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Altus</span></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> for
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</span><span style="color: black;">Started late at 19 with 2x2 hour shift and 2x6h K+H started
with the 80m2 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>kite and perfect wind from
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and M&E another 77km and we have now passed the latitude of Thule. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="color: black;">Magical night cruising above 20 km/h on the top of the sphere
covered in a blanket of diamond<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and
followed by the sun with full para helium<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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by Hugo during the cold morning hours to keep warm.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="color: black;">A bit of cultural difference trying to adapt to “the Spanish
way”. Things has in general to be discussed for a very long time, in Spanish of course, often a bit dramatic without no obviously conclusion for the once not
understanding the discussion, then a coffee break, then maybe a bit more
discussion and then a siesta...then we can start doing something. I’m sure the
three Spaniards think the more no-nonsense, non-verbal ,
just going ahead trying to fix things right away, Scandinavian approach, that I and Hugo have are
just as odd. But most important we make it work together and get things done in the end.</span></span></div>
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Started sailing at 23 last night until 05. A challenging night,
was going with a 80m2 kite and 300m line in almost whiteout most of the night
making the kite disappearing and difficult to steer. You more or less have to
guess what the kite is doing by looking at the kite lines. Wind picked up
during M & E’s shift and they ended gong with a 20m2 kite.</span></div>
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not moving ?.</b> Are having a bit of trouble sleeping in general which is not
very good as you really has to concentrate kiting. Forces are just too big to lose
concentration for just a second. When we are moving, we sleep 2 or 3 in the
tent with all personal luggage inside bumbling around on comfy Thermarest to
take some of the rough bumps when the sledge goes over sastrugis. The movement
however makes it very difficult to sleep, let alone trying to take a drink or worse hit the pee bottle ( there is no stopping for needy people).
Its like being on top of one of those inflatable things being towed after a
speedboat. If laying on the stomach going over a big sastrugi you actual get
the air knocked out of you. Doesn't seem to be bothering the others who snores
away as soon as they hit the sleeping bag. When we are not moving all five us
sleeps in the tent meant for four without the Thermarest only foam flooring as
there are no room. We are literally stacked as sardines, without any way of
moving or turning. This topped with 4 very heavy snorers, gives me a bit of a
hard time getting any sleep, so starting to be a bit of a quiet monster in the
mornings when we are not moving... There's always the alternative to drop the tent and
bivi out <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in -25C , that may have to be
the choice soon to get a good night of sleep if we are having more days of not
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</span><span style="color: black;">Started shift at 21:30 to 04:00. Really good sailing but very
heavy as we went with the 60 m2 kite through the night looping our way to
accelerate. Last couple of hours I had to let Hugo overtake one steering handle
as my arms was just done. We managed to sail this way very well with one handle
each. Are quite challenged by keeping myself warm when having the co-piloting task,
no matter how many layers I’m wearing as I’m used to keeping warm by moving. So
god a bit to cold when shift was over and had one more sleepless night in our
dancing tent trying to heat up. Really could have used some hot water bottles,
but we are boiling water when we are not moving and the thermos are usually only
lukewarm when our shift is over and we are climbing in to the tent and sleeping
bags. Even our tea is only lukewarm. Hugo claims I cant keep warm because I don't eat the seal blubber...his probably right, but I'll stick to butter for now.</span></span><br />
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</span><span style="color: black;">Got a message saying that both of the other team Dixie and Wing
over Greenland has passed our tracks and are ahead of us? Very surprising, but
then again they have been able to move when we couldn't and are probably much
more efficient in their time management. The weight of the sledges defiantly
have a big effect of the angle of wind which we can sail. On the previous
expeditions with less heavier sledge , the sailing range to the wind was up to <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a 90 angle which is now down to a 45 angle.
This is one of the discoveries on this exped. sailing a much heavier sledges. That
the two teams are ahead also means we will probably not be the first to do a
full circumnavigation by the means of wind.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="color: black;">Spend the day on repairs. Sat still for 4 hours in -15C
sewing the tent. Not to good self-management from my side as I got a bad frost
nip on one but checks sitting in an awkward position and also on some of the fingers that I know is prone to
nips. So not too proud of that, should be much wiser. Pilot sledge had also
taken a beating and one teflon panel was swapped with one from the cargo sledge.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A hard day of work.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="color: black;">A pattern of our progress has begun showing. When we go we
do a huge amount of km, followed by many hours doing repairs to the sledges,
kites or tents. The huge weight of the sledge compared to previous exp. defiantly
seems beyond what the kites or structure of the sledges individual can take.
This takes a bit of a toll that so many things are breaking that shouldn’t. I'm
told this is nothing compared to the previous exped. ??</span></span><br />
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N72”32’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>W45”28’, 2748m, 227km, total
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using a 30m2 kite. 4 hours all sailing together. Came across some ski/pulk
tracks, must be team Cornelius & cavendish, they must not be to fare away
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milestone 2500m on the plateau. Our shift ended at 4 in the morning sailing
directly in to a stunning 'sun dog' ( three sun phenomenon).... No words!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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a big tear in the tent. Also the pilot tent had another pole break. Seem as we
are going to stay here for a while. Can't repair the tent before the weather
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</span><span style="color: black;">No sailing. Wind picked up during the night but still in the
wrong direction E/NE. Max wind measured 45 kmh. Slept until noon and tried to
think out a system to distribute the forces from the big kites so it will be
easier for me to handle. M and E also had big problems handling the 30m kite <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>during there shift, so it seems as there is a
general problem with the main kite pulley, It's not running as it should.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="color: black;">We spend some time today finding out how to use the sledge
as cover digging us self under the sledge in case the tent goes in a storm. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="color: black;">Sunset again magical and out of this world. Really wish I
could send pictures. Unfortunately we cannot get the com connection up running and
have now given up making it work.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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knots. Seems as the sledges are just too heavy and the forces needed too much
for the equipment and kites to handle. To lessen the stress on the robes and
kite when starting, we now have to reposition the sledge almost every time we
start, so it's now going to take even longer time to put up a kite. We tried with pulley systems moving all three
sledges in on go, but as the robes we are carrying are dynamic, the elasticity
takes up most gained and therefore takes a long time to move.
Instead we now try to separate each sledge and move them individually. Very heavy work
as it has to be done by the team piloting so only 2 or 3 prs while the other
team is sleeping adding to the weight. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We need to figure out another way as this is
going to break our backs doing this 3-6 times pr day and can take up to an hour
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small milestone at 2500m and the highway straight north to N80. Big kites used
today 60 & 80m2. They are very heavy to handle and I'm lacking about 25kg
dead weight to actual be in control of the big monster 80m2 kite. I have to stem
my feet against the front of the runners leaning backwards pulling in a
horizontal position to able the force required. Not really durable for many
hours so have to figure out some way to make it easier.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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challenges for both shifts. In total we only did 21 km. The wind direction was
not favourable and weak. We ripped two kites and broke the main pulley to the
kite steering system. Had to quick release several times which tent to break
things. Defiantly got a good work out running up and down changing kites and
doing loops with the kite to create some acceleration. To get the best
conditions for sailing, less sastrugies an stable wind, we are heading as high
up the plateau as possible (above 2500m). <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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into the early mornings. That will be the coldest hours but we get to enjoy
both sunset and sunrise which has been out of this world the last two nights.
Wish I was able to send pictures but try to imagine - sailing on a never ending
pale blue surface, on one side a big blue moon is rising on the other side the
sun resting in an incredible<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>golden sea
that it seems<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>you’ll disappear into, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and for the final tuch both sides covered by an
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av. of 20 kmh (could easily do 35 km/h but this is too rough for the sledges
with this terrain) and covered 160km in 15h. Spend 8 h repairing the pilote
sledge that was falling apart going a bit too rough. Repairs are a part of the
windsledge game (mainly broken knots) but I was quite surprised of how much
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could sent pictures. On Manolo and Eusebios shift we passed a big crevasse field
on the latitude to illusiat and went over a 10m wide snow covered crevasse
doing 40 kmh, a bit to exiting that one!.</span><br />
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sailing. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We started the scientific
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kite doing 16km/h going into the night and the most fantastic sunset...absolutely
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Woke up this morning with the message that our departure for
the icecap had been move forward to this afternoon instead of tomorrow as a
storm was supposed to build up, so the Icelandic twin otter are only going to
fly today before going back to Iceland. Not exactly ready for departure yet, but
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The drop off on the icecap went very smooth, equipment was
unloaded quickly and suddenly we were all alone on a very quiet ice cap. We
started assembling the sledges and tent right away as we were expecting the storm
arriving any minute. However it never came not even the slightest fart of wind,
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headed out for a take-off dinner. As tourist season hasn’t begun yet, Kangerlussuaq
was quite dead and it was a big challenge finding somewhere to get any food at all.
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Karin Moe Bojsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05000519052310855169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6406409277825178725.post-46327990970606112432014-06-29T18:04:00.000+02:002015-07-15T20:45:35.115+02:00Video from the last 15 hours of our journeyThe last 15 hours of our journey going really fast !<br />
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<a href="https://vimeo.com/99448804" target="_blank">https://vimeo.com/99448804</a>Karin Moe Bojsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05000519052310855169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6406409277825178725.post-40343656274756346872014-06-25T22:04:00.000+02:002014-12-17T14:42:12.756+01:00Back in Kangerlussuaq Back in Kangerlussuaq after an exceptional flight down from the icecap. Feed and showered and now trying to digest 54 days spend on the Greenland icecap. Our windsledge expedition was a success and we managed a full circumnavigation in a total of approx 4300 km in 49 days with a record distance of 427km in the last 21h. It was not possible to follow the exact route we had hoped for but very close .... the wind decides<br />
As we had a bit of problems with our communication , the messages on the blog was very limited, however I wrote full post daily and I will post them with pictures as soon as I have proper access to the internet again.<br />
Here a few pictures giving a little impression of what we have been doing.<br />
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Twin-otter flying us and our equipment up on the icecap a day earlier (today) do to bad weather coming in. Not fully organized yet and are having some challenges with our communications. But we can't miss the weather window.<br />
Once up on the icecap, as high as the twin-otter can get us, around 1500m direction DYE2, we'll assemble the sledges and will then sail towards north-east to get as high up on the plateau as possible, passing 2500m. Will then head north up to 80 dgr passing Thule going into Knud Rasmussen Land? This should not take us more than 14 days with good conditions and is a route done twice with the windsledge. This is also the area with best conditions to set a 24h record >500km. Turning east after 80dgr and then south, we venture into unknown territories and the remotest part of the journey until we pas the 72dgr again.<br />
Hopefully we can get our communications lines up running fully , else we only have the options for texting without pictures.<br />
Tracking of ours whereabouts should be added to the project web. any time soon.<br />
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Karin Moe Bojsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05000519052310855169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6406409277825178725.post-68643393303865518392014-04-30T00:08:00.000+02:002014-05-01T23:11:32.679+02:00Any crevasses ?<span style="font-family: inherit;">Though the risk of disappearing into a crevasse is fairly slim on our journey, the risk is present. So I thought it was a good idea to do a little well needed brush-up of my crevasse rescuing skills. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">In between the very final prep. and a bit of work in Scotland, I managed to squeeze in a day, in the beautiful Lake District, of hauling, jumaring and abseiling with Zac Poulton from </span><a href="http://www.mountainz.co.uk/" style="font-family: inherit;">MountainZ</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The team, except Hugo who is in Greenland, met in Madrid over eastern for four busy days, getting the sledge and equipment ready for shipment to Greenland. Long hours were spend in the workshop finalising new adjustments, testing and assembling the sledge modules.<br /> As the functionality of the sledge is based on flexibility when sailing, all parts that makes up the sledge (runners, crossbars and base sheet) are tied together with string. This means tying over 1105 various knots! Fingers not too happy about this job, however once up on the icecap reassembling the modules, we only need to tie about 240 easy knots, and of course during the travel changing them as they wear out, yet this time wearing gloves which doesn’t exactly ease the process</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">All modules including tents, was assembled a final time for a kick off presentation to the press, which turned out to have a huge interest with attendance from all the major (spanish) newspapers. Have to say, not too much fun being interviewed when 'no habla Español'. <br />There was also a presentation of the project at the National Geographical Society<br /> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This was also the first time for me to see the entire vehicle assembled with the new additions and improvements since the last Antarctic expedition. Still can't get over how huge the modules are, and having a bit of a hard time visualizing it actual sail, let alone going up to 40 km/h. Guess it's the bumblebee over again.</span>
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Karin Moe Bojsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05000519052310855169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6406409277825178725.post-3722815847658945002014-04-20T00:33:00.000+02:002014-04-20T00:33:25.443+02:00We are not alone<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We will not be the only team attempting a full icecap circumnavigation this year. Two other ski-kitting expeditions are setting out in April.</span><br />
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<li><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Starting in the South (Narsaq) April 20th, Cornelius Strohm & Michael Charavin<span class="transpan"><span id="tran0"> </span></span> <a href="http://www.wingsovergreenland.com/" target="_blank">Wings over Greenland II</a></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Starting on the East cost (Ammasalik) beginning April, Dixie Dansercoer & Eric Mcnair <a href="http://www.greenlandice.be/" target="_blank">Greenlandice</a></span></li>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It's going to be very interesting following. We may even cross tracks with Cornelius and Michael.</span>Karin Moe Bojsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05000519052310855169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6406409277825178725.post-50768229644968837532014-04-18T20:01:00.000+02:002014-04-29T19:14:00.301+02:00Expedition prep.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Whilst I've been away all winter playing with huskies in the
arctic, Ramon, Manuel and Eusebio has been
working hard in Madrid to get the sledge ready in the work shop, getting
communication and power systems up running, testing new developed kites, logistics for evac. plans and getting the sledge up on the ice, admin. for permits
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for such an expedition. During this time the realization of the
expedition has of various reasons shifted back and forth, from not possible to maybe happening several
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When finally tearing myself away from the dogs, I've had the task of collecting
all wind- and icecap contour data I could get my hands on, from
various scientific institutes in DK, USA and DE. <span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Lots
of clever people, giving me information and access to very heavy data. A bit of a challenge trying to interpret, breaking down and downloading data that is essential to have available offline. All
in all very cool stuff, and now a lot wiser on winds and icecaps.</span><br />
As we are sailing on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katabatic_wind" target="_blank">katabatic winds</a>, a vital factor for the success
of the journey, is to avoid getting stuck in local wind systems with 'wrong' or no winds. Traveling with a 1000+ kg sledge means we are not able to just manhaule our way out of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>an area.
Local wind systems may develop around large domes or depressions in the icecap. The detailed wind and icecap surface data, will therefore be a corner stone when setting waypoints as we travel, giving us a pointer of areas to stay clear of.<br />
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being a first, is nevertheless the 7th of six very successful
expeditions since 2000 within the 'Windsledge project'. <a href="http://www.tierraspolares.es/trineodeviento/travesias-groenlandia/" target="_blank">F</a></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.tierraspolares.es/trineodeviento/travesias-groenlandia/" target="_blank">our Greenland</a></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> traverses and two <a href="http://www.tierraspolares.es/trineodeviento/expedicion-antartica-acciona-2011-2012/" target="_blank">trans-</a></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://greenland.net/windsled/expedicion-acciona-antartica-2011-2012/" target="_blank">Antarctic expeditions</a>. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Circumnavigation of Greenland is another large scale test of the sledge concept, before a </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://greenland.net/windsled/circunnavegacion-antartida-2015-2016/" target="_blank">Circumnavigation of the Antarctic in 2015</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The journey will start at the west coast close to Kanqerlussuag 5th May, and will cover more than 5000km circling the icecap, sailing clockwise with the katabatic winds. We will be sailing at an altitude close to the 2000m contour line were the topographic and winds are most favourable. Based on the experience from three previous S-N Greenland traverses on the west cost, the whole journey should be possible within 45 days if all conditions are good. However the terrain and winds, after passing Thule continuing over the northern icecap and down the east cost, are all unknown and with more unstable winds than on the west coast. <br /><br />The aim for the Greenland circumnavigation is to test the improved three module sledge system, and at the same time be the first to circumnavigate the Greenland icecap by means of wind. Hopefully also including a new windsledge record of travelled distance in a day– 500km in 24h.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">During the journey samples of snow, ice and air will be collected for analysis of profiles, levels of pollution and radioactivity.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The travelling plan will aim for 20h a day of sailing, rotating the 5 prs. crew in a 10h schedule, taking turns piloting, navigating and resting.</span><br />
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This expedition is a part of the 'Windsled project’, taking it beginnings with the first prototype sledge in 2000. The main objective of the Windsledge project, is to give simple low operating cost and eco-friendly alternatives for conventional fuel-burning logistics over remote territories in the Antarctic. Having a great potential for exploration, transport and scientific surveying.<br />
The philosophy of the project joins the Inuit way of life of simplicity, and reliability together with nowadays technology and scientific commitment.<br />
Based on the traditional Inuit sledge, the windsledge has over the last six expeditions covering almost 20.000km over icecaps, <a href="http://greenland.net/windsled/windsled-evolution/" target="_blank">evolved from a very simple structure</a> to now a three module sledge, carrying up to 2 tonne of personnel and material, reaching up to 40km/h in favourable conditions. <span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> <em>-why manhaul if you can sail !.</em></span><br />
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Intro to latest Windsledge expedition 'Antarctica 90S 2011'</div>
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<em>...yes, very Spanish & dramatic</em></div>
Karin Moe Bojsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05000519052310855169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6406409277825178725.post-63579178877161422012014-04-15T12:00:00.000+02:002014-04-18T14:29:49.769+02:00Starting a blog<em><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I’ve
been encouraged by friends and a few personal sponsors to start a blog toshare life on this windy journey I'm about to venture into. I usually enjoy reading other travellers blogs but never thought of one myself. Have never taken notes or written a diary on any of my
travels or longer work stationing’s, more or less just been going with the flow
taking a few pictures. </span></em><br />
<em><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">So, this is going to be quit a new experience and here goes</span></em><em><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">......Join the journey hope you like it !.</span></em><br />
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