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Latest News

Team Pink Lady (R) tell all!!

The Pink Lady(R) PoleCats have returned with a pulk full of stories and tales of their adventures. Below is an attempt to get some of the best bits out of their system.

Click on each heading to read what the team member has written - enjoy!

Felicity remembers the Start

Top: Competitors pulks lined up at the start line.

Below: Final words from Paul Landry

 

Sam on crossing Bathurst

 

Top: Sam looking over Bathurst towards the sea ice

Below: Sam and Tori in the 'never-ending' valley

 

Tori's chilblains

      

Top: Tori and her Chilblains after the race

 

Sam explains about the phantom polar bear!

Top: Polar Bear tracks in Polar Bear Pass

Below: Shotgun Drills in Resolute

 

Sam reports on a close encounter on Dundee Bight

   

Top: Pressure ridge in Dundee Bight

Below: Unscheduled 4-hour camp

 

Felicity on arriving at checkpoint 1

Top: Walking through the night towards checkpoint1

Below: The bright lights of checkpoint 1

 

Felicity reports on the 'Lonely Leg'

Top: Eerie sea ice

Below: Tori having trouble with her pulk

 

Tori on leaving checkpoint 2

Top: Team gingerly depart checkpoint 2

Below: Team making the most of the brief sunshine

 

Felicity describes the team's 'sprint finish'!

Top: Team Pink Lady at the 1996 North Magnetic Pole!

Below: Lunch on the sea ice

 

Sam's thoughts at the Finish

Top: At the finish with Felicity's well-travelled Union Jack

Below: The first ever all-female team to complete the Polar Challenge!

Tori's thoughts at the Finish

Felicity's thoughts at the Finish

Top: Photo at the official Finish

Below: On the plane to Resolute

 

More incredible pictures and riveting reports to follow soon......