The Goliath Expedition

31st March 2006
I got a call from Karl this morning (09:00 UK) (23:00 Thurs AK), stating that from yesterday’s location they had made it to within half a mile of the shoreline but had to stop due to lack of light. They had come across some open-water with a 9ft wall of ice on the [...]

30th March 2006
Well…. what a difference a day makes! There is good news and good news. It would appear that the batteries are OK and there was a fault with the satphone. However, it was fixed last night and consequently we now have coms again.�
Shortly after setting off yesterday (Wednesday) they reached an area of [...]

29th March 2006
Tuesday was, at its very best, disappointing. As they near the Russian coast the ice appears to be even more broken / ‘lumpier’. I received a call from Karl at midnight last night, (14:00 Tues AK), stating that it had taken them 4 hours to drag the sled just one mile. Having already [...]

27th March 2006
Monday turned out to be another good day for Karl and Dimitri. Moved another 6.3 miles in a westerly direction. Although cloudy at times, the weather has remained good and was once again ‘warm’. The lads are in good heart but it’s obvious when you talk to them that they have heavy colds, [...]

27th March 2006 
Sunday was a good day for Karl and Dimitri. They managed to get another 6.58 miles in a westerly direction, taking them over 120 miles in total, (and remember that’s being measured in straight lines, so you can add some mileage on top). Part of the reason for this good distance was the [...]

25th March 2006
Well, they’re still there and still at it! Because the ice was so broken they only managed three miles or so yesterday and not as far as they’d hoped, but at least it was in the right direction. They didn’t in fact it make it to the International Date Line, but were only [...]

26th March 2006
Karl and Dimitri have now crossed over the International Dateline and are in Russian territory!! (albeit the middle of the Bering Straits). They are approximately 28.5 miles from the nearest point in Russia, however there is little chance of them reaching the coast in anything like that distance. It must be pointed out [...]

25th March 2006
Well, they’re still there and still at it! Because the ice was so broken they only managed three miles or so yesterday and not as far as they’d hoped, but at least it was in the right direction. They didn’t in fact it make it to the International Date Line, but were only [...]

 22nd March 2006
Though it had been extremely hard work, Karl and Dmitri had managed to make 5 miles westwards yesterday. The weather is good at present, though very cold, and wanting to make hay while the sun shines they will hopefully make another five miles to the west today. In today’s satellite photograph the ice [...]

21st March 2006
Initially, as well as heading north-west anyway, they were carried northwards by the current. Their main problem is trying to make progress in a westerly direction. They have been attempting to avoid a large area of open-water to their front / west which the helicopter the BBC were using had spotted when K&D [...]