Just received this photo and it all came flooding back… that beats being in the office!

So this is how i looked about 30 seconds after finishing the north pole marathon…..good huh? Maybe i should sport it more often, this frosted look. I am glad to see that my eyes fully ilustrate the pain and knackerdness that i felt….not to mention the cold. But that’s kind of hard to miss with […]

When we were at the North Pole and in the Sahara we met so many of those people who had run 10’s, 20’s, or even 100’s of marathons. One guy we met had run something like 290 odd marathons. These were the committed marathon junkies who we agreed that we were not and […]

Another day, another report with even more dire predictions about the polar ice and its disappearance….previous studies have indicated that summer ice at the north pole is likely to disappear by 2050. But a new study just released by Peter Wadhams, an oceanographer at Cambridge University, indicates that in fact this thinning process might be […]

Onwards and upwards, EarthFireIce have passed their first milestone, 1,000 pledges of individual action against climate change. A very long way to go still in our quest to get a million pledges, the hard work is just starting, but pleasing nonetheless. So thank you all those who have pledged so far! Please help spread the […]

Our 48 hours at the pole will live with me till I die. I am going to dull my grandchildren into submission with tales of the 2 days that I spent on the frozen drifting temporary ice mass that is the north pole. From the 2.5 hour flight in a soviet plane designed specifically to […]

You’d think in a land where polar bears outnumber local inhabitants, which is home to a quarter of the world’s polar bear population, and where you cant walk outside town without a gun for protection, you’d have a reasonable chance of spotting one. But despite snow mobiling through deserted snow and ice valleys for four […]

It may seem strange after all my moaning about the cold but peer pressure does strange things to you. So it was that yesterday, after a day out on the snow mobiles, Phil (another of the English guys doing the marathon) and I went swimming in the arctic sea completely naked. Outside temperature at the […]

It’s been over 3 months since alcohol has passed Ed and I’s lips. It wasn’t so much for the physical training aspect that we gave it up (though that was definitely part of it), as the fact that we’ve had so much on the go with normal demanding full time jobs, getting the earthfireice campaign […]

One of the best parts of the whole North Pole experience was the other competitors, meeting and getting to know them – an amazing bunch of people who have done many amazing feats in different parts of the world. Learning about some of the stuff that these guys have done has opened up a whole […]

It was about 3.30am, the sun was shining brightly outside, most of us were huddled in our sleeping bags trying to rest and keep warm (which was hard even with 4 layers of clothing, 5 pairs of socks and 3 hats inside a sleeping bag) when the call came – we’re running the marathon in […]

Exhausted…haven’t slept in 48 hours. Endless daylight wreaks havoc with the sleeping patterns as does extreme cold! Well a short one then… Sean and I survived the marathon. An absolute mission - we have no idea what our exact times were - but we made it. What a relief to put […]

It’s 10.30pm. Just had a huge meal of bread, more bread, soup, pasta and various carbo-energy sachets. Feel quite sick. Trying to pack up, work out what i will need at the pole (will my ipod freeze?) and what i will not. Tomorrow at 10am we get on a 2.5 hour flight for the 1300km […]

I guess i have to see the beauty of it; after running the sahara in 42C, it feels only right that we have just been for our last pre marathon warm-up (ha!) jog at the blamy temperature of -40C. To say it was bitterly cold and painful would be a little bit of an understatement. […]

This is Ed checking in live from the arctic circle. It is bitterly cold in this place. I was naive to pack so little stuff… the shop assistant laughed at me today when i told him i had no major down jacket and no thermal boots. And its not just shop talk… […]