As soon as we are home we will start replying to the hundreds of personal messages we received offering kind help and support, as well as updating the website with photos and video footage of our epic journey. For the kit junkies we will do a full equipment review and take a look at the few changes we will make for next year (predominantly the camera equipment).

Another quick thing, currently our first public talk about the Ice Cap crossing will be at the Kendal Mountain Film Festival on the 20th of November.

Just for those of you, I suddenly realized that we’ve haven’t really explained what’s the Fella Reichert and the Bastion section is. And that is basically essentially a cerac crevasse field. You’ll see why,  the whole ice shelf been bottle necked. It’s essentially a glacier that runs off there and it’s a very steep dip that goes into it. And basically there’s a huge cerac and crevasse field, so that’s the first that we’re waiting at the top of.

And then from there it’s up to the top of the mountain and then it’s a, well depending on who’s accounts you follow, it’s between a sort of 400 and 900 meter absail down a ice cliff. So, that’s basically why we’re sitting here not moving. Hopefully that will explain why and we’re not just sitting in our tent doing nothing.

A couple of things, trying to cheer Katie up today, we thought that possibly we don’t know but we’d be really grateful if anybody does know that this is the longest trip across the ice cap by a woman, I’m wondering maybe? I don’t know, if anybody could let us know about that that’d be fantastic.

We did interview with the BBC this morning again, that was good. You can find out on their website more than likely. **Will add listen again link later – PM**

Lots of little things. We got our single tents  skin, that we chose  has faired  remarkably well. It is starting to wear a little bit. They are holes appearing around the place and we patch them up as best as we can.

What am I missing. Well, we seem to spend, especially today, we spend a lot of time just missing life you know, missing home and missing the best bits of life so the simple things. Being able to just turn a tap on and get some more water out, being able to go to the fridge and get some food out, all the really simple things, you know, even going through loo here is a bit of an epic adventure. So, we have a lot of time to think about that.

Incidentally if anybody can think of some good games for us to pass the time by, that’d be fantastic. We tried the obvious ones and we’d been really grateful for any new inputs. We’re getting quite hungry now we got to almost the finger licker and the wrapper licking  stage which is quite interesting where we really do just mop the last little bits. And then let me see… I think our feet are having the chance to recover which is also a good thing I suppose, not often we get that.

And also we got a very strange phenomenon which would be really interesting if anybody knows why but the tips of all of our fingers have become really hypersensitive. They’re really quite hard but hypersensitive on both us. And we’re quite interested just to know whether it was caused by continual manual labour in the cold  or perhaps some sort of deficiency. But that’s it for today hopefully we’ll update you tomorrow. Bye.

What else just happens, the video camera decided it doesn’t wanna work again. So unfortunately we’re trying to fix that so that we can actually do some filming when the time comes. Apart from that we are just try to catch up with some sleep. Nothing hugely exciting to report. A lot of whiteness! We’re quite tired and the bags are relatively dry. So we’re enjoying a little bit of a rest. And that’s about it really. So we’ll try and update you with some better and more interesting news tomorrow.

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!

]]> http://www.rivers-of-ice.com/2009/09/20/best-and-worst-bits/feed/ 0 http://www.rivers-of-ice.com/2009/09/17/never-a-problem-always-a-solution/ http://www.rivers-of-ice.com/2009/09/17/never-a-problem-always-a-solution/#comments Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:44:49 +0000 Katie-Jane http://www.rivers-of-ice.com/?p=547 Right well I have 2 days to tell you about and quite a lots happened. So yesterday, we walked in a blizzard, as per usual. Tarka mentioned briefly that we were going through a crevasse field. What he didn’t tell me whilst we were going along, and probably quite wisely, is that that two snow bridges that he was on, kinda boomed out beneath him luckily there was enough snow that he could actually back off and go a different way. But you know, the noise of a huge crack and thunder underneath you scared him a little. Thankfully the rope was long enough back and the wind was howling enough that I was completely oblivious. Which is a good thing.

The I got worst in the evening, having now spoken to a few people we are convinced that I had acute Carbon Monoxide poisoning last night. We actually think that the panic attack I had a week or so ago was a mild version of this also. But this was a full blown episode. I lost all control of my body, I went like a stiff plank, I had a seizure, full dilation of my pupils, nose bleed and then unconscious. I remember coming round to Tarka screaming my name, I was in his arms and he was screaming at me. I’ve never seen him terrified and the look on his face frightened me to death as well. So it was a horribly scary night and it took about 2 hours before I was under some form of control. Its knocked me for six really, this morning I didn’t want to leave the tent, it took 2 hours of tears and convincing you know “what should we do?”, basically it scared me to death. I’m finding it really really tough from every angle and that was really the extra nail needed to make me want to quit.

But equally I didn’t want to fail so I did get out of the tent and I have walked another day. And I am feeling much better today.

We had another blizzard today so we couldn’t see anything. We had a lot of  sastrugi.  So that’s really uneven ground and the sledges kept turning over. Tarkas sledge fell over far more than mine and at one point he was bashing the hell out of it with his ski sticks! He lost his rag, he was so angry it just kept going over and over and over.

We had to stop a little bit early because of the wind, we couldn’t stand up. But we’ve done 13km and after all of last nights fiasco we’re quiet pleased with that.

The only other thing to report at the moment is the bad infection on my foot is doing much better. I have 3 other wounds that are also infected. The problem is that tomorrow our medical bandage supply will run out and then we’re forced to use the repair kit, electrical tape and gaffa tape and obviously if we use all that up and then if something breaks we’re in trouble.

So its all going a bit Pete Tonge! But we’re going to carry on the best we can any way and I think tomorrow we’ll be half way in distance and we have 15 days of food left. Whether we make it, who knows?. That’s all for now bye!

So, that was our morning which was a bit depressing really ’cause we’d already eaten our full breakfast so we couldn’t go half rations really, and we were worried we weren’t going to make the distant.

However, it all cleared up and we had a little bit of visibility this afternoon. We managed to make, we think we haven’t check it but we managed almost our daily distance, slightly short.

The other reason that we were slightly short on our daily distance today and it’s becoming a bit of a problem is that Katie has development an infection on her foot which could or couldn’t be combined with frostbite. It’s very difficult to tell in the moment but anyway, her toe is very swollen and I’ve put her on an antibiotics course courtesy of Doctor Ed, but it is making walking very difficult. Her little toe is quite, although is also the whole right hand side of her foot, is quite swollen so it’s very difficult for her to put it in to her boot in the mornings. A lot of agony, a lot of tears. And then walking all day. She’s starting to take pain killers and we’re hoping that the antibiotics course will kill that infection pretty quickly.

Apart from that, we’re both feeling the hunger a lot more now. We are starting to dream about food and we’re eating our entire meals and still being quite hungry at the end of it. So, that’s all good. Apart from that, our morale is quite high today. We’re quite cheery and I think we’re doing maps after this, but I think we’re almost at the half way stage or maybe the day after in regards to food to distant ratios. So, that’s all good. And a part from that, that’s about it really. We’re all wrapped up, it’s snowing and we’re just about to go to sleep, chat tomorrow. Bye.

Anyway, it was incredibly cold. So, we had another night with no sleep. So, that’s 48 hours now with not even 10 minutes between us, sleep. Yesterday, in our day off we actually cut up the sleeping bags and sewed them back together as one slightly smaller bag in the hope that we keep warmer. So we’ll see how that goes.

Right this morning, that’s where it’s all kinda started. Not everything had completely dried. The socks, the gloves, the boots and our trousers. So, that all froze over night. And if you could hear the swearing and the screaming, of me, having put on the bandage on my feet and the freezing socks, and then trying to get them into the completely frozen ski boots. You would have thought I was giving birth. It was just horrendous. And it was good 2 hours before I could feel my hands or feet. But everything did dried because we‘ve had clear skies today, all be it quite cold because we were walking into a head wind but everything is dry bar our socks. So that’s not bad.

We walked up hill all day, every step was up hill and over half of it was with our back packs on as appose to pulling our sledges. It’s the first time we’ve put on our back packs for 8 or 9 days now. They are considerably lighter but still a dam sight harder work than pulling our sledges. But we had to climb over a cole between some mountains, we are actually perched on top of the cole at the moment. We had planned to make about 20km today but with the terrain we only made 14.5km so that’s not too bad considering we were carrying rather than sledging.

Ok last bit of information, a wound that I did have a bit of an infection on my toe quite a while ago from a blister, had healed. But I’m having really bad pains and problems with it and we can’t work out whether I’ve got an infection inside or if I’ve got frost bite its looking a little like frost bite at the moment. So, I’m gonna start a course of antibiotics in case its an infection but I‘m going to look after it as if it could potentially be frost bite as well.

So, that’s the only problem of the day but we are happy and we’re looking and hoping for a good day tomorrow. Bye.

We got caught out 14 hours, we had really heavy rain. I mean real heavy rain coming in. Which, eventually after we pitched the tent, turned to small streams and they started to pour over the top of the grounds sheet. So that the entire tent floor was about a centimetre deep in water. Everything that we own was drenched bar our emergency warm clothes. So it was a pretty, pretty awful evening. We spent most of the night fending off hypothermia with hot water bottles. We use a couple of days worth of fuel, our emergency day of fuel, heating hot water bottles trying to fend off hypothermia till the morning. And today we decided that we were going to just stop, reset, fix everything, and try to dry as many of our clothes as we could.

Bit of sods law really it’s been perfect day outside and really hardly a breath of wind. I mean it has been windy but not compared to what we’ve been dealing with and the sun’s being out. So it was a bit of irritation that we are still sitting in pretty much the same spot. But I think it was a necessary day for both of us. We’ve been on half rations again all days where we sit, we’re on half rations. But the morals a lot better today and we’re fingers crossed for some better weather tomorrow hopefully. So we can actually make some more distance. And that’s about it really. Thank you very much for your messages and we’ll chat tomorrow. Bye.

So, I mean it really just…it truly makes my experience in the Artic in February feel quite pleasant because at least then it’s just cold and you could wrapped up because here it’s just evil. I wouldn’t want to put off people coming to Patagonia of course, just the ice cap itself!

Lets just talk a little bit about the panic attack because I’ve seen other people with panic attacks or I thought and it wasn’t like that. I’ve seen people get really upset and they get carried away and they get in a tiz until they can’t control their breathing and it is just a complete mess. Where I was happily just finished dinner, in my sleeping bag chewing on a 9 Bar and I said to Tarka “oh pants I need to go out side for a wee”, which when your in your sleeping bag is a bit of a rig moral. Before I even had a chance to eat my last bite of my 9 Bar I couldn’t feel my hands…well, I could feel that they were going tingly, then I couldn’t feel them. I lost coordination and couldn’t focus my eyes, it felt like someone was sat on me. My chest was going tight and then I couldn’t breathe very well and this just came out of nowhere. You know I wasn’t upset about any thing and now I’m really worried about needing a wee in case it happens again! One interesting fact, that Dr Ed Mathers did tell us, is that after you start hyperventilating in a panic attack, after about 4 minutes of that unless you can bring it back to normal, you pass unconscious which presumably is the body re writing itself! Aren’t we clever us humans! Anyway, that’s probably enough of me rabbiting. I’m going to go kind of to sleep in my wet sleeping bag. And, yes we’ll speak tomorrow. Bye.

]]> http://www.rivers-of-ice.com/2009/09/10/on-the-move-again/feed/ 0 http://www.rivers-of-ice.com/2009/09/08/cold-to-tears/ http://www.rivers-of-ice.com/2009/09/08/cold-to-tears/#comments Mon, 07 Sep 2009 23:08:06 +0000 Katie-Jane http://www.rivers-of-ice.com/?p=531 Well, last night I reached well the biggest low on the trip and burst into tears.  Couldn’t stop.  Really for a very silly reasons.  Just because I’m so cold, you won’t believe that the cold can bring you to tears like that but it has and I’m sure it will again, yet.  Well, it’s colder here than I felt in the Arctic although it isn’t that cold

But we don’t have the warm clothes that we had before or we don’t have a nice hot drinks coming into or big sleeping bag and I mean no fault of the sleeping bag but we have brought bags for weight reasons that are just warm enough to survive but not warm enough for comfort and I’m wearing every single item of clothing I have every hour of the days as it is and we don’t have enough fuels for warm drinks.  So, I’m  just really, really suffering from the cold and it just brought me down yesterday and exploded in to tears and to make it worst, you know, you get tired if you don’t sleep and then you feel the cold more. It’s  kind vicious circle that’s biting me at the moment and I can’t keep the food down.  We’ve got these added supplement of cheese powder and AMS which are the 2 things that have changed since, over the last week since I felt quite ill and so I’m losing a lot of weight ’cause I can’t obviously get out all the calories that I am putting in ’cause it’s coming out one end or another quicker than it’s going in.  So, I’m actually going to stop the AMS and cheese powder and just see if I can keep down just a normal evening meal as it is and then hopefully, stop losing the weight as fast as I am.  So, yeah, all that was a bit down really but today, I am much much better.

We’re having a fairly good weather. Really, really strong winds hitting us on the side but it wasn’t snowing and the clouds are pretty sparce.  It was just a strong wind.  So, we can still see where we’re going and navigation is pretty easy.  So, actually this morning we did a radio interview BBC Somerset with Emma Britten.  That should be going out in the morning.  That was lovely to speak to somebody.

We’re actually camp outside Mount Fitz Roy region which is really fairly well known pinnacle mountain. Really, known for serious climbing and it’s quite different to all the other mountain here.  It’s really jagged peak. I’m sure it’s the most it’s the most  photographed place in Patagonia, all be it not from this side, they would have been photographing  from the other side to where we are.  But its nice to see a landmark. The only other thing to say is, over the last week, we’ve been doing some analysis with Sarah and hopefully she’ll have put on either today or maybe tomorrow some evaluations on how we’re fairing in the minds whether she things we’re going cuckoo or if we’re doing okay. I don’t know.  So, that’s it for today.  We’ll speak tomorrow.  Bye.

]]> http://www.rivers-of-ice.com/2009/09/07/daily-routine/feed/ 0 http://www.rivers-of-ice.com/2009/09/04/record-distance/ http://www.rivers-of-ice.com/2009/09/04/record-distance/#comments Fri, 04 Sep 2009 06:34:15 +0000 Tarka http://www.rivers-of-ice.com/?p=524 It was a cold night last night. The water froze in the tent for the first time so we had to hustle it into the sleeping bags to keep it from freezing, it’s been quite a cold day today as well.

Today was our first real day man hauling, we’ve got new aches and pains in different areas our hamstrings, bums, lower backs are all aching a little bit. But it makes a massive difference and is a lot easier than carrying the packs, so we’re all for that.

Its been a white out most of the day, about 99 percent has been zero visibility and we’ve been navigating on a bearing following the wind. Then right at the 11th hour the sun came out and it was amazing, we saw the terrain and the beautiful landscape for the first time which was quite exciting.

Bit of a record breaking day for distance today. We made 17.2 km which is absolutely amazing compared to our record 5km before today, so absolutely winning today. Fingers crossed that we can keep it up for tomorrow.

Katie’s is very excited about the fact that I’ve got Spag Bol for dinner and she has Beef and Potato Hot pot. That’s her highlight of the day. Its a a far cry from home cooking but its quite a lot to look forward to when your out here. And that’s about it really. We have to go now as we’ve got Katies worse job of the day, which is melting all the water. It takes us about half an hour to melt the snow into drinking water and Katie gets really cross because she has to handle the snow into the pot for half an hour!.

Apart from that all is well, spirits are high, we’re quite chilly. Our sleeping bags are looking a bit damp and frozen but apart from that we’re all well.

Today had its own highs and lows. The lows were Tarkas excitement that we were on the plateau meant that when we weren’t on the plateau this morning and he had a huge temper tantrum and threw all the toys out the pram, yelling at all the equipment, thankfully I managed to get away with it lightly and he didn’t shout at me which is a bonus! By lunch time we finally made it to the plateau and we could put the bags down and pull them along in our micro sledges which although is still hard work its nothing compared to carrying those buggers!! That was a good high

The only problems of the day was that we’ve had a complete blizzard all day. We’re still roped together even though we are out of the crevasse as half the time I cant see Tarka in front of me so really really bad weather.

I haven’t really got much skin left on my feet, which is quiet uncomfortable. I’ve never really suffered from blisters before I am assuming thanks to the lakes and bogs at the beginning. Our faces are horrendously burnt even though we’ve got factor 50 sun cream and lip cream on and despite the blizzard we are burnt to pieces. Its very silly burns as well I have huge goggles marks and Tarka’s got huge sun glass marks.

The final thing which is a low is I started dreaming of food really badly which is always a bad sign as it means you want to come home already. I desperately want steak and chips and an ice cold coke.

I think that’s all, speak to you tomorrow.

It’s incredibly windy here. We’ve been fighting with the wind constantly although we were kind of expecting to be. The biggest problem that we’ve got is bad visibility, we’ve been navigating in almost zero visibility all day for the last couple of days and I don’t think it’s such a problem up on the plateau but whilst we’re down here navigating through the crevasses it’s incredibly difficult. Every time I keep stepping onto a crevasse and having to back off them.

We’re almost up on to the plateau. Fingers crossed. We had to stop early today just again because of the poor visibility. We got a few running repairs going on with the back packs. They done absolutely amazingly. I mean, there were only officially rated to carry 23 kilos. We got over 50 kilos in them and they have lasted. A couple of stitches and seams have started coming undone but we don’t blame them for that.

Today is the last day of what we called  river rations which they were the rations that we’d allocated to get to the glacier and didn’t count in the actual expedition food. So tomorrow morning is the first day of our actual proper expedition food. We’re quite looking forward to having a bit of a change in diet.

There are few aches and pains, Katies ankle is quite sore, we’ve got a few blisters that we’re nursing but apart from that we’re in good spirits and we’re quite cheery. Bit frustrated with the poor visibility but apart from that, we’re good.

Hang on a second, where is the wind and rain I hear you ask?! Every morning we have woken to the bluest of skies, glorious sunshine, not a breath of wind and a cool bite in the air, keeping the snow crisp. Probability would have it, that we are going to have bad weather for the next forty having used up our 4 good days!

A couple of little things to report. Firstly, Tarka’s allergy, that he suffered from in the Arctic earlier this year, has shown some symptoms again so we have had to bin several items of clothing used in the Arctic and replace them with new ones from the only Cochrane shop.

Last night we went out for a bite to eat and had a classic ‘lost in translation moment’. I ordered a simple pizza and mineral water, dull I know but I am currently loosing weight as opposed to gaining it, so thought I would try and aid recovery. Tarka, as ambitious as ever, tried to order two Empaladers (small samosar style parcel of food) but his brilliant accent actually managed to order him two bowls of lettuce and tomatoes (ensalada)…just what a growing boy needs. To top it off he had accidentally ordered a Chocolate Sunday for his drink, with whipped cream and cherry on top to boot!

The good news is that we have arrived with almost everything we set out with. I say almost because when we arrived in Santiago we had to go through customs and we had to declare all the food that we had with us. Although all the expedition food was fine and they let that through they were deeply suspicious of out Peperami and a few varieties of nuts. The fact that we had 2 bags of nuts and 4 bags of Peperami taken wasn’t really a problem, the problem was that we spent so long in customs that we nearly missed our connecting flight. Whilst I was more than happy to spend the night in Santiago, the thought of Katie’s logistical plan not going 100% according to plan was enough for her to charge across the airport leaving stunned passengers in her wake, through the queue of 200 people waiting to check in and promptly ordered the poor lady at check in to stop the flight. Cutting a long story short, we made it onto the flight and despite taking bets that our bags were never going to make it to the other end we have to give due credit to TAM air who must have got some poor guy to run out onto the runway in order to get our bags on that plane.

This part of Chile really is very beautiful; it’s a strange mix to tundra and Spectacular Mountains, but what I love the most is the fantastically eclectic mix of architecture. I can’t even begin to describe it because no two houses are the same. They have just built houses in what ever shape and size seemed like a good idea at the time and it has such character.

Some of you probably don’t know this but we spent months testing out various cookers trying to see if it was possible to use the MSR Reactor. We had two major problems with the system, one being its efficiency in the cold and the second was obtaining sufficiently good quality gas canisters. On our little shopping spree this morning, as we were replacing our Peperami and nuts, I turned down an isle and there must have been at least 50 different sizes and makes of Iso-Pro (including the illusive 500ml)!!! So for any other expeditions that might be thinking of using a gas stove down here don’t worry about getting hold of the gas. With regards to temperatures we will log the temperature every day on the ice cap and post our findings to try and definitively asses whether it would be feasible to use such a cooker. White gas on the other hand is a nightmare to obtain!!! Well that’s not strictly true, it’s not that it’s a nightmare but the quality just isn’t very good. What they sell is called ´Bencina Blanca´ and although it is white gas its not quite as pure as what I was hoping meaning that we have to clean the cooker a lot more regularly and carry a little more fuel than anticipated.

Katie isn’t feeling very well so she has just gone to have a rest before our combined 20 hours of busing over the next few days.

When we started planning for our nutritional requirements we immediately assumed that the expedition food on the market was the best that we could get and didn’t give it a second thought. There are quite a few different brands out there and so we set about finding the ones with the highest calories. Unfortunately it quickly became apparent that in order to get enough calories from these expedition meals alone the weight of our packs was going to be totally astronomical. To add to the problem some of the major manufacturers of these foods were being a little on the generous side with their calorie estimations and they don’t include the weight of the packet in their figures. So suddenly we have gone from having 800kcal in a 162g packet (as quoted by the manufacturers) to actually being ≈ 735kcal in a 206g packet (what we tested)!!!

Realising that unless we could solve this issue the expedition was going to be a non starter, we started to look at individual ingredients within the meals. You have probably noticed that I have been talking obsessively about calories however you will now probably be pointing out that it’s not just about how many calories but rather what form these calories are delivered in. After all if it didn’t matter how we got those calories we would just take bars of lard and be done with it.

We have been working tirelessly and it’s been a long slog but not only have we finally managed to fit ≈ 896kcal in a 181g packet, but we have managed to do it with an excellent blend of protein, carbohydrates and fat. As if all this wasn’t enough there is also a very real chance that our food will need to be rehydrated using cold water due to the very limited fuel rations we have.

We have used all sorts of ingredients including ground almonds and a variety of nuts and seeds, cream powder, AMF, Cheese powder etc. and it really have been a steep learning curve. Knowing what I know now I am positive that it is possible to go even further and increase the calorie density significantly. However one thing that shouldn’t be overlooked is the psychological aspect of eating. As brilliant as it sounds on the face of it, if you increase the density of calories so far that all it takes is a mouthful for your whole days rations you will loss that all important moment in the evening after you have been facing the elements all day, your exhausted and cold and you get into your tent and have that hot meal and feel yourself come back to life.

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If you are seriously considering an expedition that requires absolute nutritional control then I would seriously recommend visiting a nutritionist, getting a breakdown of exactly what you need and then go out and put it together from scratch.