The expedition to the fuel drop started this morning. Gísli, Freyr, Mike and Andrei are already off, driving in two cars. Gísli Karel stayed behind working on the cars, but if everything goes as planned he will be returning to Cape Town on 20th of November.
The first challenge is to find a way through the mountains up to the high plate. When we talked to them they had already driven 150 kilometres and on the front of the cars they had put some equipment that searches for crevasses. A much need equipment since there are crevasses all over in the area. The equipment is working fine and makes them a lot safer. But even so, one of the Hiluxes fell down a crevasse which they had not noticed and lay beside the car. It was not big and getting the car up was no problem.
They are already half way through the mountains and last night they slept in 1800 meters altitude. Next night the altitude will probably be close to 2500 meters. Hopefully they will manage to get through the mountains today and tomorrow they will head for the place of the fuel drop.
This is a critical time of the expedition and hopefully the altitude will not make them sick.
