We are currently on our way to pick up one of the ski team that has fallen behind. Hjalti and Tony are with the BBC crew more than 100 km away filming the race leaders. We had a problem yesterday when the other rear axle broke on my car, we did not have any more spare axles so I welded some of the spare parts I had for the front wheels to the rear axel so we could continue driving but now I only have 3 wheel drive. It took me 6-8 hours to fix this and we worry that the other rear axle Kenny has will go soon. We will have replacement axle when we reach the South Pole so we are crossing our fingers that this will hold. The snow conditions are really good, easy to drive but we are just cruising slowly to reduce the risk of the other axle braking. We still have 350km to the South Pole but we expect to do 100km extra going around the protected zone and potentially some more servicing of the skiers. There is a big area between us and the South Pole which is protected so we will need to go around this and follow a certain approach to the South Pole.
January 16th, at 11:30
Gísli
axles