With the team's sat-phone now out of action, this may be the last message direct from the ice for a day or two. It came in three short text messages. Please be patient. We hope to hear from them when they pass through Reykjavik, or perhaps even when they reach the Greenland coast.
We also go back to the beginning of our story - and show a few pictures here - of Karen visiting schools in Badenoch and Strathspey. (Interestingly, the bottom picture shows three Karens!)
Message from Anna
Hi, everyone,
It is 9.05pm here on Thursday 1st - and we can't charge our phone any more. We did 32.5km today and have only about 33 km in total to go to Point 660.
We saw the mountains for the first time in over three weeks. This was an event worth celebrating, so out came the Marks and Spencer Percy Pigs! I hope you all know what they are. (This, incidentally, is not a commercial plug for M & S!)
I walked the last two laps, rather than skiing. Luckily, the snow was hard.
We have started traversing down the glacier so Karen's right deltoid muscle was hurting but we are all tremendously excited to be entering the area of crevasses for a change - and a new challenge in place of the relentless, monotonous plod across the never-ending white expanse.
We all look forward to being back home with our families.
Anna, 1st June, 2006.
