The final few kilometers

While we can't report directly from the team today, we can offer you a little insight into the last few stages of the journey.

The top picture, above, shows where the team had travelled to on Thursday 1 June. Today they will have moved, with luck, some 30km west of that point - down a glacier towards their finish line. This point is known as 'Point 660' on the west flank of the ice-cap. (See bottom picture.) You can see, too, from this picture that the team will have come to the edge of the ice, with mountainous territory between there and the sea.

They will then be picked up and taken to a small village community called Kangerlussuaq - also known as Sonder Stroemfjord - which was an American airbase until 1992. It isn't really a typical Greenlandic town, but has a very busy transit airport - and even an 18-hole golf course.

The team may spend one or more nights there to rest and recover from their adventure, and to gather up their gear before setting-off home. They'll then fly from Kangerlussuaq in the west  to Kulusuk island on Greenland's east coast - where the airport runway is made of hard-packed gravel. They'll then fly-on to Reykjavik in Iceland where they'll stay another night in the youth hostel before returning home.

If we're lucky, the team may be able to again contact us before they fly from Greenland.

Safe journey, team!

(The above satellite-map images were updated and provided by Boele Ruurd Kulpers of the Norwegian Polar Institute - a friend of the expedition team. Thanks, Boele.)

Note: PC users with Google Earth can download the KMZ data to see how the team has progressed.