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April 25, 2003
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With spring approaching the Arctic gets
warmer with every passing day and when all that is between you and the
depths of the Arctic Ocean is ice then it is easy to feel paranoid. The
feeling now is that the ice is disintegrating around him as he skis. He
had quite a scare today when the snow bank of a lead collapsed under him
as he was crossing it. Ben very nearly had to take a swim then but made
it safely across. So now Ben wishes the temperature would drop another
ten degrees.
Ben keeps drifting to the east
He is heading for Borneo and covered 10
nautical miles today despite difficult ice conditions. This means that
he will probably get there by tomorrow. He is drifting to the east and
is skiing southwest to counteract it. But after a day of skiing he still
found himself one degree further to the east. Ben's current position is
N89.18.3 E106.21.2 10.2nm. This is the first time that Ben has been
completely alone for 11 days so he is looking forward to coming home.
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