expedition UPDATES
update 15 / final
Our journey is now behind us and it is time to begin sharing the stories and images of collected during our 44 days in the wild Darwin Cordillera. more... update 14 / 8 mar 03
An epic journey from start to finish. This seems an appropriate way to sum up our 44 days of mountaineering and kayaking to traverse the Darwin Cordillera. more... update 13 / 4 mar 03
On the 9th day of the storm we received weather information via satellite phone from New Zealand. Broken cloud and lighter winds were offering the first opportunity to escape the Chueco Neve. more... update 12 / 1 mar 03
10 Days ago, when this storm began, the barometer crashed to the lowest we have ever experienced. Last night it dropped a further 10 millibars to 970 and we were hammered by the most violent winds to date. more... update 11 / 20 feb 03
We will be leaving camp #2 today, once again pushing forward to keep up (or catch up) with our time schedule on this mountain leg of the voyage. more... update 10 / 9 feb 03
41 Days since a day without rain, and only 6 hours of sunshine in total in all that time. Sometime we wonder if scuba gear should have been on the gear list... more... update 9 / 27 jan 03
Departed from Timbales Island today. Travelling has been good up the Canal Pomar accompanied by amazingly vivid rainbows. These are followed by furious Rachas - wild Willy Walls and solid rain squalls. more... update 8 / 21 jan 03
At 1.00pm today we will be pushing off from Navarino, our heading... WEST... Many thanks to the Chilean Naval Authorities for working throughout the weekend with us to establish our safety plan and comms schedule - the generous amount of time & energy they have given us is very much appreciated. more... update 7 / 18 jan 03
It's been a long, long road to get this expedition even close to pushing off from the beach in Ushuaia. Finally the final pieces are falling into place, either that or we have modified some other pieces to make do. more... update 6 / 16 jan 03
The whole kayak saga has taken a lot of time and effort and money. It's fantastic to have it resolved and we have spent the last few days cleaning two years of accumulated dust off the boats, doing some minor repairs and generally getting them ship-shape for the trip. more... update 5 / 12 jan 03
The Bears are Free!!! After a lot of hard work and communication - we have the Bears back in our possession - a major hurdle to departing on our adventure. more... update 4 / 6 jan 03
Wow! It has been two weeks of hard graft and rapid development for Adventure Philosophy finally getting away from NZ. more... update 3 / 15 dec 02
It is only two weeks until our departure to South America and the start of the Southern Andes Sea kayak and Mountaineering Expedition. Life has been typically hectic planning and organising. more... update 2 / 1 nov 02
Interest is building about the coming expedition but the initial response when I declare where we intend to head is "Tierra del Where?"... more... update 1 / 18 oct 02
Welcome to the first update from the Southern Andes Sea Kayak and Mountaineering Expedition. more... |
