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24 May: A sledge fell in the water: We must quickly haul it back on the ice

24 May: A sledge fell in the water: We must quickly haul it back on the ice

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  • 17 May: The terrain is a bit better today
  • 18 May: Then, things get tricky again. The snow cloaks the dangers
  • 19 May: Nice weather today, but the terrain prevents us from using our skis
  • 19 May: One of the toughest obstacles of the day
  • 19 May: Dixie is tying the sledges together to cross a lead
  • 19 May: Our good friend Alain is still on our catamaran while I am already on solid ice
  • 19 May: In perfect shape after 80 days on the ice
  • 19 May: We can use our snowshovel as an oar
  • 19 May: Dixie, who just fell in the water, was able to catch on to my sledges' ropes
  • 19 May: It snowed a lot in the Arctic Ocean this year
  • 19 May: I am crossing a lead covered in fresh ice, which bends under my weight (Hubert)
  • 20 May: First pause of the day, just after crossing a lead
  • 20 May: Tiny green algae sometimes attach themselves to the ice
  • 23 May: Every night, Dixie wites down his impression in his journal
  • 23 May: Pitching the tent and packing it up takes no more that 10 minutes
  • 24 May: Since noon, we have been in a full white out (Dansercoer)
  • 24 May: Sometimes, Alain gets a bit childish (Dansercoer)
  • 24 May: The morale is high, despite the numerous difficulties we've encountered
  • 24 May: Deep tracks in the snow. Heavy snow slows down the sledges quite a lot
  • 24 May: Every moring and evening, Alain is writing down the technical data (Dansercoer)
  • 24 May: A sledge fell in the water: We must quickly haul it back on the ice

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