Obsessive tinkering
Enough's enough. I've been playing around with the design of this site for yonks, and I've finally settled on a design I'm happy with. I think. I've also uploaded the final round of holiday snaps, from my 2001 North Pole expedition with Pen Hadow (fourth link down on the gallery page).
The 2001 expedition was my first time on sea ice and I had no idea what I was letting myself in for. Nearly everything that could have gone wrong on that trip did. Bear attack, frostbite, equipment failure, hunger, hypoglycaemia, and when I got home, depression. The photos don't really do it justice.
On a different note, the Guardian chose this site as today's 'Top Blog' . They suggest I might end up as 'prey to tall poppy syndrome'. In hindsight, I suspect emailing them yesterday to nominate my own site probably swayed their assessment slightly…
Note to self: less shameless self-publicity, more self-deprecation.
— Filed under Other expeditions