Home and d-dry ...and pizza p-pie!

Hi, everyone.

It's 9pm here in Kangerlussuaq and we are all on our way out for pizzas.

Will be in touch later today to tell you about our last 4km today and our journey here.

This is just to let you know we're back safe and sound.

Anna.

But watch these pages for further updates

Of course, it isn't all over yet. The team still has to get home - and home is quite a few places, including Norway, Finland and the UK. No doubt, too, some of the team may need some medical attention.

Families will be hugged, the news media will want to interview everyone, congratulations will be offered ... celebrations could go on for weeks.

Importantly, too, lessons will have to be learned. 'Where did we make mistakes?'; 'Why did our computer freeze?'; 'What were the main challenges - and did we tackle them as well as we might have?'

And, behind the scenes, families and friends who have been working to help the expedition will still have a few anxious moments. Here's  an e-mail message we received from Patricia McCormack, Anna's mum.

Safe and sound

"We’ll probably be collecting our redundancy notices after today!"

"What an exciting day it was yesterday! We had burnt meat, watery potato soup in place of mashed potatoes and the cabbage had burnt dry and half of it was a black deposit that I had to scrape off the bottom of the saucepan with a wire scraper afterwards, but who cared?"

"I was fast asleep at midnight when the phone by our bed rang. Anna's dad, Mike, grabbed it and knocked the whole thing to the floor and then instead of answering replaced the phone on the receiver. Meanwhile, I tore down the stairs and when it rang again answered it here."

"It was Anna, sounding all rushed and animated, ‘We’re here in Kangerlussuaq and we’re on our way out for pizzas.’"

"In the background the noise sounded like a football crowd, everyone talking at once. I rang local reporter Andy and left a message on his mobile phone. I hope he does a good write-up in today’s Express and Star. His will be the first post-expedition report."

"Then I rang Hazel. She had put a message onto the team's website and so had the team's friend Ski - and I had already passed on a message from Ski to Anna. It was he who gave them the solar panel and a satellite phone."

"How boring my life is going to be when all this excitement dies down! There! I’ve used that banned word (boring), possibly for the first time in my life but whatever follows the past six weeks must appear tame and mundane. Anna has promised to ring me today and tell me about the last stage of the journey. I hope they had a change of clothing."