Børge Ousland

We are finally moving. The weather was on our side yesterday, and we were able to take off and landed at 88 14 on the plateau.We had a chance to walk a few hours before we camped. Fredrik and I (Børge) walked to the left and Jan Erik by himself a kilometer to the right. Sverre and Ståle flew on down to the south pole to ski sail back to Patriot Hills.
We’re doing great, the weather is cold, approximately 35 degrees below and the sun is shining. It’s comfortable inside the tent, dispite the rather cold weather and we’re happy to finally be on our way.

Some comments from Fredrik

We have finally come out of Patriot Hills after a long week down there, a week that was too long. It feels good to come up here to Børges home.
We have no problems, our eyes are fine. The temprature is freaking cold, but we’re handling it. I have a little greeting I wish to send out to Bente Erlandsen. I’m walking this trip for you Bente Erlandsen.

Unfortunately, the weather started to act up again, so we had to stay at Patriot Hill yet another day. We have now packed up all our equipment and it is sitting in the plane waiting for us. The weather is clearer now so we hope we can get off in about an hour.

We will fly out in about an hour. The plan is to fly out even though the weather in Patriot Hills is still bad. The weather further south is good. The pilot has said that he’s willing to take the trip, so we’ll just have to try. Hopefully we’ll be landing on Teals mountain first, were we’ll stop for gas. Then go 88 degrees south where Jan Erik, Fredrik and I (Børge) will hop off. Sverre and Ståle will go a little further down to the south pole where they’ll start ski sailing back to Patriot Hills.

In other news, things have been a little chaotic down here, a climber broke his leg on the mountain Vinson and we had to pick him up.

We’re happy to finally get going.

We are still stuck on Patriot Hills after five days. This time it’s the weather here at Patriot Hills that’s causing us trouble. It’s extremely windy both night and day, and we have very limited sight. Things are improving slightly and in a couple of hours we’ll know if we’ll be able to fly out today. If not, we’re going to have to wait another day. That’s Antarctic.

We are still staying in Patriot Hills and the weather is aweful (wind blowing at 100km per hour) and 20 degrees below. We have to secure our tent during the night due to the wind. It is beginning to calm down, and we’ll might get a chance to fly out today – we’ll know in a couple of hours. Everyone’s fine, Sverre and Ståle who are ski sailing down from the south pole aswell as Jan Erik, Fredrik and me (Børge)

It looks like we’ll stay here another day due to bad weather down south.
We are awaiting a new weather forecast in a couple of hours. The way things look now, the pilot won’t be able to get in here due to the weather.
The weather where we are is fine and warm – 15 degrees below. We’re having a good time, and skiing.

NB: Fredrik has a delayed birthday greeting to his sister Elin. He’s sorry he forgot in all the fuzz, but he loves you very much!

The weather is good and everyone is happy. We have already been out skiing twice.

We are in Punta Arenas in Chile. All is well and all the equipment arrived safly. other teams has waited as much as 10 days to get to Antarctica. but it looks like we willl be on scedule. we leave in half an hour and next message will hopefully be from Antarctica.

Today we fly to Punta Arenas in Chile, and from ther onwards to Patriot Hills in Antarctica. In Patriot we board a ski equipped Twin Otter plane and fly to around 88 degrees south. Here Fredik Syberg and Borge will ski the last two degrees to the South Pole. On the plane is also Jan Erik Warbo, Sverre Hollie and Staale Samulesen. Jan Erik shall ski alone to the South Pole while Sverre and Staale will fly to the Pole and ski-sail back to Patriot Hills.