Well today was a really good day, you’ll be pleased to know, we haven’t had many of those. We woke and the sun was shining, the wind was on our backs and it was quite cold but that’s good because we can actually ski across the snow where as yesterday we just sunk in. So that was good and we were really pleased with that. The sun did go again by lunchtime but we had a few hours. At lunch time deep grey really mystical clouds came over, but nothings fallen from them yet so we still had fairly good visibility all afternoon. We made 22km which is our record so all is good and moral is high. Kit is all dry because the sun was shining. And we’re pretty happy at the moment. But tomorrow we will reach the Fella Recchart Cerro Mayo section the most difficult section of the trip. We should be there by lunch time tomorrow and then its completely weather dependant, I mean we could be there a week waiting for good weather because we cannot do any part of it with out good weather but I’ll let Tarka tell you about that tomorrow, about what that involves. It is his birthday tomorrow so it will probably be really miserable day for him, he has no presents, no nothing, no extra food just a miserable day tackling one of the biggest glacier falls, that you can imagine, so that‘ll be nice.

Filming, we have obviously been trying to make a film about our journey but its considerably harder than we thought. We used the camera in the Artic at -40 and stuff with no problem. But here about 80% of the time it just doesn’t work. Presumably it gets moisture in there which then freezes and then it gets wet and then it gets warm and its just a nightmare. What filming we have done we’re please with and we will continue to do our best to get as much footage as we can, but as I say most of the days especially the bad weather days which shows you what were going through, it doesn’t work. It only seems to like the nice sunny days which paints the wrong impression of the icecap. But we are doing our best with that. Similarly with the camera there are only so many pictures I can take of a complete white out! So we haven’t done very well with the photos yet.

I thought I would give you a quick low down on my favourite and worst parts of my day, showing how simple my day is! The worst part is putting my frozen boots in the morning. The pain is immense, probably not helped by the fact that my feet are hideous, there’s very little skin on them and everything is infected and its all just nasty down there. So that’s pretty painful. Don’t enjoy night time at all, because we cannot sleep, we haven’t slept for weeks and its starting to show now, we’re really tired. Not only because its wet and cold but also because in the night we get these shooting pains kinda like growing pains, in our hips and our legs. What ever position we’re in it just hurts and we roll. I just wait for the next day, one day nearer the end, that’s all night time is to me at the moment.

The other thing I cant stand is my rope that’s tied between Tarka and I every second that we’re moving. Because where ever I am the rope is in the wrong place, I trip over it, it pulls me over! I am going to cut it to shreds when this is over I hate that blinking rope!

But the best bits… well taking the boots off!! Breakfast we LOOVVEE breakfast. There our own home made breakfast and their absolutely scrumdidlyumpsus! Even though I say so my self. Hum what else…Sadie, we love hearing our voice answer phone message from Sadie, although its not her in person it lovely hearing her voice and hearing all the messages on the web site and makes us feel a little less isolated. What else? Probably the second hour of the day walking is my favourite point of the day purely because it’s the only time I’m starting to get warm and nothing started hurting yet, so that’s a good hour.

And I thinks that’s about it, I’ll leave it at that tomorrow Tarka will have some more news about the most difficult part of the trip and we will go from there. Bye!