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| day | date | position | KM | Temp | incidents |
| 20 | 27.04.02 | N 70°33'836''/ W 22°28'330'' |
0 | -6°C | The expedition team of 70° north decided to give up - for this time. They are determined to come back next year to try it again. They already talked with the sponsors, who signalized, that they will support also the next expedition. So revisit this site; we will update it the next weeks with fresh pictures and interviews with the team members. If you want to be informed about updates and the start of the next expedition, send an E-Mail to us. Read the letter titled "last words" here |
to be read here! |
| day | date | position | KM | Temp | incidents |
| day | date | position | KM | Temp | incidents |
| 18 | 25.04.02 | N 70°33'836''/ W 22°28'330'' |
0 | -10°C | It won't stop snowing; the teams moral is getting down - Peter and Michael want to start to the Gunnbjoerns Fjell and Ralf and Thomas don't want to stay til summer in Constable Pynt. If you want to support them, write an E-Mail to the team-members. |
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| day | date | position | KM | Temp | incidents |
| 17 | 24.04.02 | N 70°33'836''/ W 22°28'330'' |
0 | -11°C | The extremely bad weather drives the team into inactivity. As long as the weather stays like this, they can't even think of starting. A small report and new pictures arrived. |
report here! |
| day | date | position | KM | Temp | incidents |
| 16 | 23.04.02 | N 70°33'836''/ W 22°28'330'' |
0 | -10°C |
The expedition will go on - somehow. Peter and Michael are planning to go to the Gunnbjoerns Fjell with a pulka. Ralf and Thomas will return soon to Germany - this is the plan. Nobody knows, when they will be able to start, because the bad weather forces the team to stay where they are. Now they have time to send us detailed informations and, of course new photos |
report here! |
| day | date | position | KM | Temp | incidents |
| 15 | 22.04.02 | N 70°33'836''/ W 22°28'330'' |
0 | -10°C | We expected the decision of the team for today, but we "only" got new pictures and a report of the 20.04.02 |
report here! |
| day | date | position | KM | Temp | incidents |
| 14 | 21.04.02 | N 70°33'836''/ W 22°28'330'' |
0 | -8°C | What will the team decide to do? The weather will turn to bad after a short sunny period yesterday. For Wednesday the forecast says, that there will be a lot of snow and wind up to the speed of 110 Km/h. Temperatures will fall to -20°C. We are expecting the decision of the team for tomorrow, wether the two climbers Peter Hüttel and Micheal Hübner will go to climb the Gunnbjoerns Fjell. Again new pictures |
report here! |
| day | date | position | KM | Temp | incidents |
| 13 | 20.04.02 | N 70°33'836''/ W 22°28'330'' |
19,5 | -5°C | Today only short news; no special incidents. |
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| day | date | position | KM | Temp | incidents |
| 12 | 19.04.02 | N 70°22'373''/ W 22°27'546'' |
28 | -2°C | The team has decided to return to Constable Pynt. They started at 10h in the morning, at 19h they settled up the camp. A long leg of 28 km. The snow is getting harder, temperatures are falling. Short before they settled up the camp, they saw fresh tracks of a polar bear.... not again! We again received a small report which illustrates the reasons for the reversal. |
report here! |
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| 11 | 18.04.02 | ??? | 0 | 2°C | It seems like the expedition has to give up; because of the warm weather the ice of the fjord is opening, all attempts to surround the fjord failed. There is food enough for approx. 4 more days if they ration it. Today the team had to shoot down an agressive polar bear. The report of that incident is to see here. However, the nutrition problems should be solved - not with a barbecue but by hunters, who are informed and are on their way to get the bear - hopefully they'll bring in some food. The team first will return to Scoresbysund, Peter Hüttel and Michael Hübner are thinking of flying with a Twin-Otter nearby Gunnbjörns Fjell to climb this mountain at least. Transfer of informations and Datas has increased, perhaps it will be intermitted for some days, while the climbers are on their way to the peak. You can be asured that after that we will present high quality pictures and exciting reports. |
report here! |
| day | date | position | KM | Temp | incidents |
| 10 | 17.04.02 | ??? | 6,5 | ??? | Incidences are overturning; again 1m of fresh snow which makes it hard to walk, especially for the dogs. Again a polar bear which came near up to 50m, only displaced by some shots from a gun. Food gets rare, because the settled depot is out of reach. The team tries to contact a helicopter to bring some food. They are thinking of alternatives to the dogsled, because it's too slow in the deep snow. The team found refuge, partially destroyed by polar bears. So things turned out different to the plans. We will inform you, as soon as we get news. |
| day | date | position | KM | Temp | incidents |
| 9 | 16.04.02 | 70°10'589''
N/ 22°19'057''W |
4,5 | 0°C | Strong winds and 1m of fresh snow make it hard to go further. After a hard walk of 3,5 hours with only a leg of 4,5km the team has settled early the camp. The level of adrenaline was quiet high, when a polarbear came near by. This neat animals in the zoo are quiet big and dangerous in reality. But they succeeded in displacing the bear. The good news: Thomas, the cameraman, had send us pictures and a report of the first days. |
detailed report here! |
| day | date | position | KM | Temp | incidents |
| 8 | 15.04.02 | 70°13'049''
N/ 22°22'455''W |
25,5 | -9°C | Today the team has made a long leg of 9 hours through deep snow and packice. For the exhausting walk on skiers the members had to mobilize their forces. Hopefully they get good sleep despite of the sighted polar bears. For tomorrow they are planning a shorter leg for regenaration. |
| day | date | position | KM | Temp | incidents |
| 7 | 14.04.02 | N 70° 26' 54'' N/ W 22° 27' 78'' |
35 | -11°C | First it seems like the contact has been aborted, but then we got first news at 23h MEZ. The team is on it's way - the sun is shining, the snow is quiet deep. The dogs are doing well. |
| day | date | position | KM | Temp | incidents |
| 6 | 13.04.02 | Scoresby- sund |
0 | -1°C | Today we didn't receive any news from the team; either they are too busy, or they have some technical problems in satelliting the data files. |
| day | date | position | KM | Temp | incidents |
| 5 | 12.04.02 | Scoresby- sund |
0 | -10°C | Preparations in Scoresbysund: the dogsled is checked and the search for suitable dogs is continued. Weather: it will get warmer and they expect some snowfall. |
| day | date | position | KM | Temp | incidents |
| 4 | 11.04.02 | Scoresby- sund |
1200 | -12°C | First the flight was cancelled but then the conditions got better. With 870kg of luggage and 4 persons the plane was at it's limit. First difficulties: only 8 of the needed 14 dogs are there. They have to organize some more. |
| day | date | position | KM | Temp | incidents |
| 3 | 10.04.02 | Reykjavik N 64° 09' 00''/ W 21° 57' 00'' |
0 | 7°C | Still stucked in Reykjavik - a gale over Greenland with 7-8 Beaufort is too much for the small plane. Instead we got fresh pictures - Thomas, the cameraman, has used the night to overcome the last difficulties for satelliting the pictures. |
| day | date | position | KM | Temp | incidents |
| 2 | 09.04.02 | Reykjavik 064° 09' 00'' Nord / 021° 57' 00'' West |
0 | 7°C | They reckoned with snowstorms - but now they are fixed in Reykjavik for approx. two days. |
| day | date | position | KM | Temp | incidents |
| 1 | 08.04.02 | Reykjavik 064° 09' 00'' Nord / 021° 57' 00'' West |
2180 | 8°C | Start to Reykjavik - without Randolf Nießner Randolf Nießner had to cancel his participation short dated due to business reasons. |
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