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08.03.2012
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EOCA on Top of the World as it Announces Rune Gjeldnes as its Newest Ambassador!
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Release date: 08 March 2012
The European Outdoor Conservation Association (EOCA) is delighted to announce that Rune Gjeldnes has agreed to become its newest Ambassador, promoting the work of the association. Rune was approached about the role by Bergans of Norway, one of his sponsors and an active and supportive member of EOCA. In his new role, Rune will be a passionate advocate for the work that EOCA and its members achieve in supporting the conservation of threatened wild spaces worldwide.
EOCA is a group of businesses in the European outdoor sporting industry who have come together to raise funds to put directly into conservation projects worldwide - to give back to the great outdoors.
In the last 5 years, EOCA, a not-for-profit organization, has supported 36 environmental/conservation projects worldwide to the tune of €860,000.
EOCA is aiming to have raised its first €1million for conservation by July 2012!
Link:
http://www.outdoorconservation.eu/
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08.12.2011
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South Pole
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After 13 days the group reached the South Pole. We saw the station 11 hours before we came there. Strange to be back, but nice. A bit more relaxed this time than in 2005. We just came in time. Four hours later we where on the Bassler airplane on our way back to Union Glacier.
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01.12.2011
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Nice!
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The beginning of the trip was not the best for me. Had a flu and fever in the body before I left Punta Arenas. This continued into the trip +bronchiat and then I got tooth root infection as well, but everything healed. I do think we where very lucky with the weather. Temperatures between -17-35 degrees Celsius. No wind of matter. No sastrugee. And sunny days except from seven hours where I had to use the GPS.
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27.11.2011
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British "Shackleton, last 97 Nm
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One week ahead of departure I got request David if I could join the team. Just had to do some phonecalls back home. Not really fun, but I should like to go down and visit the South Pole this year. And so I did with a team of total 10 people
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26.09.2011
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Cordon Rouge Club meeting, Cornwall
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26th September 2011, the Cordon Rouge Club visit the home of disaster relief charity, ShelteBox, in a full day’s induction into the work the charity does, how it runs and how their ShelterBox Response Teams (SRT’s) are trained. And we had fun as firefighters as well.
Earlier this year, at the last meeting of the Champagne G. H. Mumm Cordon Rouge Club, the Club members voted that this year’s chosen Club charity should be ShelterBox. The charity was chosen in recognition of the incredible work they do to provide emergency shelter and lifesaving supplies for families around the world who are affected by disasters.
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15.07.2011
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SummerOpen
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We visited the Norwegian Broadcasting´s summer evening program. Some clips from the trip, but it is only in Norwegian. Anyway, pictures tells a lot.
Link:
http://www.nrk.no/nett-tv/indeks/270985/
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28.06.2011
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Day 21; Position Ward Hunt Island
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Cecilie and Rune have arrived Ward Hunt Island! The skiing conditions were actually much better than anticipated and they skied in the last 10 km on nice flat ice. Yesterday they only did 3.5 km in the first five hours. The conditions were extremely difficult with pressure ridges and lots of melted and open water. Fortunately they got passed that pressure zone and the conditions improved. The Twin Otter is expected to pick them up tomorrow and fly them to Resolute Bay.
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27.06.2011
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Day 20; Position N83.10 W74.30
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Cecilie and Rune pushed on for 11 hours today and covered 11.5 km. They needed the extra hours to make sure that they make it to Ward Hunt Island tomorrow. The twin otter they used for the drop of at the beginning of the expedition is chartered for the whole first week of July, so they have a flight window of about two days. They are now only 10 km from Ward Hunt, so we expect them to make it tomorrow; however we know that the ice condition close to shore can be extremely difficult. The moving ice meets solid land and this normally this means ice rubbles and pressure ridges.
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26.06.2011
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Day 19; Position N83.24 W75.38
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I spoke with Rune last evening. Rune and Cecilie are 20km from the Ward Hunt huts (17km from the ice shelf), Rune estimates arriving at the Ward Hunt landing strip on the evening of June 28, local time (GMT –6). If the weather is good, the pick-up will happen around midday (GMT –6) on June 29 and landing in Resolute will be about 5-6 hours after the pick-up. John
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23.06.2011
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Day 16
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Started with sleet and rain today, but changed into a beautiful sunny day on the ice very different from a rainy yesterday. 0 degrees is not very cold, but we felt cold and really wet coming inside the tent. First day we used the stove inside. Today we have had most fun with the wildlife. Several different seabirds showed up. It is strange to hear all that birdsong up here again. Down in the water we have observed several unknown objects that we do not have knowledge to. I do think I saw a kind of a small fish today. Tomorrow it will be fishing. We paddled the two biggest lead on the whole trip today. They were approximately 500-600 m and lovely. Down south east we can see the pyramid of Ward Hunt Island, where we are heading. Strange, but feels right due to the experiences we now have. Ocean Post C&R
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