Day 7
Lat S80deg 58.456’
Long W80deg 10.017’
Altitude 804m
Daily distance
12.04nm
Another beautiful sunny clear blue sky day with a very light head
wind. Still minus 20 deg with wind chill though!
Set off looking to tick off
the first milestone by crossing my first degree of latitude and into 81 degrees
south.
Back at Union Glacier (and in Punta), I was lucky to meet and speak
with Johanna Davidson who currently has the female solo record at 39 days,
something which Wendy and Jenny are trying to surpass this season. When I asked
for any tips she told me to try and celebrate something every single day. Very
positive thinking so today my positive was going to be reaching 81 degrees
south. But I didn’t! Frustratingly when I checked my mileage at the end of the
day I was one and a half nautical miles short. Not a disaster though as I can
now celebrate that tomorrow.
Instead I celebrated the versatility of the
cold avenger mask I mentioned yesterday. I have brought some caffeine gum to
give me a boost from time to time and this afternoon I accidentally coughed the
gum out. The cold avenger’s rubber cup caught it so all good. I then spent a
short while trying to fetch it back in using my tongue but without success. A
quick head flip and it jumped back into my mouth. I was so impressed it became a
‘thing’ and when I get bored of chewing, the cold avenger minds my gum and then
I have the joy of trying to flip it back into my mouth. Simple things!
The
mountains behind me are almost out of sight and temporarily appear and disappear
every time I stop and look depending whether I’m on top of a rise or in a dip in
the terrain. Pretty sure I’ll lose sight of them completely tomorrow leaving
nothing on the horizon all around.
Before I go I’d like to say a huge thank
you to John Crooks. He gets these blogs via the wonder of satellites and then
posts them across all my social media and website, tying in with Anthony Goddard
to keep the tracker up to date too. I hope you are enjoying following me and
it’s all down to John posting my updates so thanks again!
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