Ben Saunders - Polar Explorer, Motivational Speaker

Greenland!

As I've been hinting for a while, Tony and I are off to Greenland today for a four-week training expedition in and around the Kangerdlugssuaq mountains. We're going there to test a whole load of new equipment - three prototype sledges, custom-made rucksacks, a new tent, some very cool solar energy solutions and a ton of new technology.

I'm going to keep updating the site via a PDA and an Iridium satellite phone (using a tweaked version of Wordpress that we'll be releasing as open source once I'm back in June). I was hoping to write more about the trip, but I still have a load of last-minute packing to do. You'll just have to watch it unfold, live from the ice, I guess…

I'm going to sign off by saying a HUGE thank you to the individuals and companies that have gone way out of their way to make this trip happen: Brooklands Executives, David Jensen, Tangent Expeditions, Paul Walker, Icelandair, Science in Sport, Expedition Foods, Montane, Crux, Iowa Thin Film Technologies, Cleardome Solar, Louise Higginbottom, John Arnold at AST Airtime, Mary at Waterstones Picadilly, Des at Ellis Brigham in Covent Garden, Damien du Toit, Steve Jones, Valeria, my mum, and everyone else that I've forgotten to mention…

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