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Antarctic. I'm running for 16 hours a day, and I am buggered when
I stop. I won't be able to maintain this pace until the end of the run
to the South Pole. But if I can run 60 or 70 kilometres for the next few
days, it will put me ahead of schedule and give me the leeway to slow
up a bit or cope with the terrible weather we have been told to expect
as we near the pole.
Tonight, the ground as far as I can see in any direction is white,
and the sky is white, and the horizon line, separating the two, is a red-
yellow rim. It's magic.
January 2
From the start of the day there was an icy headwind, and it has been
relentless. It seems to cut all the way to my soul. I am covered in ici-
cles, slowly becoming encased in ice. We regularly have to deviate to
avoid the crevasse fields—vast areas where there are small and large
crevasses covered with thin snow and ice. ALE recently lost a tractor
down a deep crevasse, and it will cost them millions to try to recover it.
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