Christina Franco North Pole Solo 2010

Christina has covered her greatest distance to date, 16km, and is spurred on by the phenomenal sunsets!! Audio and Transcript below:

Good Evening, this is Christina, It’s March 11th on thursday evening. My position is 83.3526 North, and 78.0412 West. Today I rejoined the frozen lead and carried on until I hit the dunes of sand, well that’s what it felt like even though they were snow and I did a remarkable 16 kilometers and I am now 716 kilometers to the pole. I feel absolutely knackered. I’m enjoying some wild west chilli. My feet are being warmed by a hot water bottle inside my sleeping bag and I am ready to hit the hay very shortly. I got to camp, I had a bit of a disaster with my fuel bottle which leaked all over the tent floor, made me cough and almost throw up from the fumes that it then released but all was sorted and now water is on the boil. Today was a remarkable day and that the sun is starting to set for a very long time. So the Red sunset went from about 4 o’clock til about 8 o’clock making everything the most extraordinary shades of reds and pinks for as far as you could see. It’s incredibly still and quiet and sometimes mesmerisngly so because you stop and the crunch of your shoes and your walking sticks on the snow, and the sleds bumbling along behind you peaces, and you just listen to nothing. And there’s never a time in our lives when we hear absolutely nothing and it is mesmerizing. I could just sit there and listen to that for hours but then I get cold and you have to keep going. I’m looking forward to a really good night sleep and then hopefully put in some very good miles tomorrow. That’s all for me. Nighty night.

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