Today there will be a team briefing and gear check.  The crew will also be able to familiarise themselves around Punta Arenas.

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View of the Andes on the way to Punta Arenas

Getting the […]

Sms just received ‘We are in Punta Arenas – it’s very windy.  We are waiting for the others to arrive.  The weather is marginal for the passage to Antarctica’. 

The plan is to depart Punta Arenas on Saturday and fly for 4 hrs over the continent to Union Glacier.  The crew will no doubt want to depart windy Punta Arenas as […]

Sean departed early this morning for his JHB flight to Sao Paulo, then onto Santiago and finally to Punta Arenas – a port town on the edge of the Magellan Straits in southern Chile.  On Wednesday Sean will meet all the others on the team as they fly in from various parts of the world.

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It’s the usual last minute scramble to get everything done before Sean leaves tomorrow for the Zahid South Pole expedition.  Sean is super excited – he’s been longing to return to Antarctica since summiting Mt Vinson in 1998 on the first South African expedition.  Sean is the videographer and photographer on the team. 

From Zahid’s website www.zahidexpedition.com  – […]

The Kili Sept 2010 gals (Malcolm's pic)

After an early start, the group will descend through the rainforest to Mweka park gate (approx 2 to 3 hr) where they will say goodbye to their local guides and porters.  Then a transfer to the airport and they depart Kilimanjaro for Zanzibar.  Overnight and celebrations at […]

After the three 3-hour descent from the summit back to Barafu Camp this morning, everyone will have a well-earned but short rest, collect their gear  and hike down a rock and scree path into the moorland and eventually into the forest to Mweka Camp. By now their legs will be dead tired but they’ll be feeling like supermen and […]

‘6.30am summit!  It started warm and windless and ended frozen (-5C) and blustery.  On our way down…’

(Pics courtesy of the Kili May 2010 group).

After a hearty dinner last night, the group would have shuffled off into the darkness to begin their hike up a steep path of scree and seasonal snow for about 7kms which will take approximately 8-10hrs.  At Stella Point on the crater rim (5,685 m) they will stop for a short rest before the remaining hike along the rim to Uhuru Peak […]

‘We’ve arrived at Barafu.  Everyone is well.  The weather is looking sweet – a bit windy and will be clear and cold tonight with full moon.  We depart at 11pm tonight for the summit bid’.

Barafu campsite

 Just received from Sean ‘Lovely day tapping up. Everyone is strong.  There are great views of the peak and Barafu is in sight. The well acclimatised porters are flying past us’.