Day 36 in Antarctica. A good day. Lou moves on across a hard, flat surface through light winds and great visibility. It's a flat run all day and Lou makes 15 nautical miles. He's now only 8 nautica...
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Day 35 in Antarctica. Lou is now only a few days from the South Pole, but it's a tough day today. He was expecting firm surface up at 9,000ft on the Polar plateau, but the usually hard-packed surfa...
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Day 34 in Antarctica. That's 34 days without rest and still Lou is pushing on. Today was a routine day. Clear weather, less sastrugi and good visibility for most of the day. Lou makes 14 nautical ...
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Day 33 in Antarctica. Great progress today, Lou crosses 88 degrees South and is now two degrees from the South Pole. He's feeling leaner now and his thermal underwear has become quite baggy. He's n...
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Day 32 in Antarctica. Lou wakes up to relatively good weather with a strong and steady wind and wind chill dropping to around -30C by the day's end. The low temperatures allow Lou to do his best wa...
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Day 31 in Antarctica. Lou wakes to great weather. The sun is out, encircled by the frozen halo of a parhelion...
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Day 30 in Antarctica. It's a clean sock day as Lou pushes on up towards the Polar plateau. He meets patches of sastrugi but also finds himself zipping along for two hours on flat icy ground. A stra...
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Do Not Go Gently... (Logs #27 & #28)
Day 28 in Antarctica. That's four weeks on the ice for Lou Rudd. Brutal going with another whiteout day and more sastrugi. Lou begins to feel some mental fatigue, frustrated by the rough ground. In...
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Day 27 in Antarctica. Lou wakes up to a weather warning from ALE - a big weather front is coming in. He pushes on through howling winds and zero visibility. There's a few small disasters along the ...
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Day 26 in Antarctica. A good day all round. Clear visibility, an unconcealed sun and light headwind. Over the course of 11 hours Lou makes good progress and covers 14 nautical miles...
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