News from the Polar Race Organisers….

Communications Restored

Published: Monday 25th April 2011 14:30

All came through “loud and clear” last night as the teams moved out of the “communications dead pocket” and have been making some serious inroads into the distance between them and the Pole. They have all been doing some 20 mile plus days showing that if you really “want to” the mind tells the body what to do!

They came through at very different times yesterday but we make Slugs at 14 miles and Internationals at 20 miles from Checkpoint 3 respectively and both will arrive by Monday evening local time.

The issue now is the weather where they are which is not good. We have deliberately not moved our checkpoint team as we had wanted to give ourselves the option of being able to pick up the teams en route and move them forward if they had not “risen to the challenge” and got the miles done. This would have given them the chance of at least finishing on foot. Now that they have shown what they are “made off” and made the mileage themselves we need the weather to relent so we can catch up with them.

Lots of brain cells are working away in Resolute to solve the problem but we wait for the weather to change.

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