Wednesday / Day 11: What is the biggest cake on Earth? Antarctica! Today Christian celebrated his 36^th birthday by being in the middle of the cake. His teammates acting as candles and colourful decor, all wrapped in different colours and outfits from Bergans, Rab, Mountain Equipment, Arcteryx and Sir Joseph – the inner wrapping a bit more standard: Brynje.

But we have a sneaking feeling his best gift was hitting 30+km again as the group performed super well on a very changing day: wind, snow showers and white-out, but things breaking up spectacularly in the evening. The temperature were a sweltering -14°C, the wind coming from the side and later halfway from behind! Can you beat that as a surprise gift when you are in Antarctica?

antarctica gifting Christian with a Sound & Light show!

White-out, no contrast make walking very hard as no bumps ave visible and you are constantly thrown off balance

Wednesday: Not an easy day as wind, snow and whiteout made for a very challenging day. Quite a few still have clear symptoms of altitude sickness and could not pull their allocated weight. That meant heavier sledged for some of the others…

That the team did 12,5 km must be seen as a huge victory. But by camp everybody was more than happy to stumble into the tents and relax as today’s lesson sank in: The is nothing like a free lunch – especially in Antarctica. When you het to the South Pole you have earned it!

Happy campers: Victor and Igor

WEDNESDAY: Not an easy day as total white-out engulfed them. The lack of contrast makes it very hard to navigate and is mentally draining for the one in front. For the one behind it is a little better. But as you can not see any sastugi or bumps in the snow you are constantly thrown off balance. – So, they did well to cover 18,8km which is longer than the average they need to get to the Pole in time. Now they have less than 100km left as they have broken into the 89^th degree!