Day 18-19

Setting new record .This day we traveled 70km with heavy tailwind with speeds up to 20km/h.This was a surrealistic experience. Then every thing turned pretty bad. We went with some distance between us when Tommy suddenly were gone.Frode could only see one of Tommys orange pulks. Tommy had fallen into crack!! Blue is a pretty colour but not when you are stuck on a small snow shelf 3,5 m down under the ice and the bottom is 20 m bellow you.Frode managed to arrange a couple of secure ropes and it ended happily.We were told that the snowbrigdes were still safe. But summer came early this year. After that we luckily had a rope between us. Frode fell into a crack too later on in the evening.

During a break we lost our Irridium satellite telephone.This turned out to become a huge problem since we could not tell anyone anything about our progression.