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Once Adrian Flanagan and his team realised that the sea-ice East of the Taymyr peninsular had no intention of yielding, they were faced with the unwelcoming prospect of seeking a fast alternative, or risk abandoning Barrabas and the entire expedition altogether. The favoured option was to have Adrian's boat transported through the ice onboard one of the ice-breaker ships bound for Murmansk... "...the Murmansk Shipping Company, operators of the ice-breaker fleet in the western Arctic. It was one such vessel - the Kapitan Danilkin ... that was suggested as the transport. Based on the quote - steep but under the...

I guess Adrian "Wrong Way" Flanagan is less than pleased with the blog posted here yesterday by your humble NewsBusters correspondent. Whilst trapped by arctic ice, Wrong Way has taken time out from his travails to attack Yours Truly on his Alpha Global Expedition Blog entry tenderly titled, Spot the Moron: After a badly written piece for a French news wire service, a false story has started circulating through the Internet.Amazing how rapidly inaccurate information can spread.The first corrections are starting to appear and we liked the postings by Dan Xavier. One is reproduced in full on BSD - The Detector...

Russia’s Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) is now assisting the expedition by providing and interpreting satellite images of the ice which is currently blocking my route north. Several days ago I was informed that southerly winds were expected between 3rd and 8th September and that these winds could conceivably clear the ice northeast and thus create a window of opportunity. However, instead we have a cyclone to the north of my position generating storm force northerly winds. We all know that weather forecasting is an inexact science at best. In the north Polar region there are numerous additional complicating...