KASPERSKY LAB COMMONWEALTH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION

On November 26th, the team passed their first global waymark the 83rd parallel. Kylie has todays PodCast.

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Kylies PodCast in writing:

"Hi its Kylie from New Zealand, its the 24th of November, a continuation from last message (The message was actually left on the 25th. Guess she left her PDA at home Tim, UK Support)

Position South 83 degrees 01.261 minutes, West 067 degrees 53.284.

Weve been traveling for 8 hours and 10 minutes today and weve covered 11.5 nautical miles. Were traveling really well, moving well. Weve got fantastic conditions for making ground and our systems are working nice and fluidly. Everyone is really happy with the progress today, a bit up beat and Ive also solved the problem of how to get the protein drink to dissolve on water. It was like trying to eat polystyrene balls really hard work trying to digest that but weve got it sorted now.

So really all working super hard to try and drink all of our allocated food and snacks for the day. Its really hard work but i think as we continue to keep working well get more and more hungry and eat more. we have to eat otherwise we have to carry it. Interesting times with the poo bags. Lots of stories there which I wont go into.

Everyone seems to be really well, happy. Ive had a strain on the top of my left foot which has been bothering me quite a lot yesterday. Ive been trying different things with my boots to sort that problem out and eventually today I changed skis with someone else and that seemed to work a treat.

I think were all good. This weather is frickin unbelievable. Weve had hardly any wind at all, its been cool and sunny 24hours. We can see forever in every direction. Its incredibly beautiful. Looking for a feature to head towards can be a bit challenging. Heading into a little bit of sastrugi every now and then just to keep it intersting, make us work a little bit harder. Weve come across a couple of hills but theyre probably just a few metres high over 5 or 6 miles so its hardly even a hill but when you get up on top you can look back and see the white expanse just slightly underneath you. Its magnificent. Not monotonous and boring yet still really inspiring and everyones feeling pretty lucky to be here.

Okey doke!"

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