Cold by Ranulph Fiennes
Author:Ranulph Fiennes [Fiennes, Ranulph]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781471127854
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
We have come nine miles along Karl’s suggested route today to 84°42'. Only 318 miles to the Pole. Another thousand or so on the other side, but that is not even worth contemplating yet . . .
My chin was numb when I came in and lit the cooker. Must have pulled my frozen face mask off too hard. When thawing it out and picking the ice bits from around the mouthpiece, I found a one inch diameter tuft of my beard complete with skin implanted in the bloody ice. It took a while to remove this from the wool. Where the skin has come away there is now an open patch of raw flesh the size of a large coin. In a while my chin warmed up and began to bleed. Now it is just weeping liquid . . .
Tonight we’ve had a fire. Charlie restarted the cooker, but a leak around the pump caused flames all over the safety blanket and on the tent floor. We chucked the flaming cooker out of the tent in case the tank decided to explode, then we beat out the flames. Now we are using the spare cooker and patching up the holes in our bags with black cloth cut from a marker flag . . .
Charlie’s leg went through the ice into the water today as we tried to pull out a sledge jammed in a moving trench. Dead on –40°C all day and wind steady from the north-west bang into our eyes. All the world is misty. We’ve been out here well over a month and I cannot wear goggles on the move; they mist up and navigation becomes impossible. I just can’t spot that vital best travel-line through the murk which is the key to success or failure. At midday, clouds of black steam rose up right across the northern horizon. There is no noise, just the steam. I find it impressive and a touch uncanny. The equinoctial tides may well be shifting the sea and so fracturing the ice.
Have just finished trying to patch up my chin. The raw place is now down to the bone; I can see it in the mirror of my compass. I look a disgusting sight. Charlie confirmed this . . .’
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