Gísli, Freyr, Mike and Andrey arrived from there expedition late night yesterday day to Novo. The team was tired after long tour and little sleep for the last days. The guys are save now in Novo. They will take the day off to rest. Tomorrow they will change the radiator in one of the cars. Otherwise the Toyota seems to be in pretty good condition after the expedition and when the radiator has been replaced the cars are ready for their next tasks in the Antarctica.
After the day tomorrow they will perform some small expedition around the Novo area, planning save driving routs for the future and some more tasks. The guys are scheduled on flight from Antarctica on 2nd of December. They will arrive to Cape Town on the evening of the same day. In Cape Town they will have a day off before returning home.
This expedition started on the 4th of November when Gísli Karel, Gísli Jónsson, Freyr and Andrey landed in the Novo Airbase. Their task was to repair the four modified Toyota Hilux cars that were used in the South Pole Race last year and prepare the cars for this season in Antarctica. On the 11th of November Mike Herbert arrived to Novo in order to join the team and participate in the upcoming expedition.
When the first two of the cars was ready to go the team set out for expedition. It started on 14th of November. The expedition members were Mike Herbert, Gísli Jónsson, Andrey and Freyr. All of them have experience from travelling and surviving in hostile environment. There task was to find and prepare a suitable place for fuel drop. The fuel was dropped from an airplane and stored in the ice for this season. The fuel is to be used by airplanes and expeditions this season.
Meanwhile the expedition took place Gísli Karel one of Arctic Trucks most skilled engineering stayed in Novo in order to finish repairing the second two cars. Gísli Karel completed his tasks long before it was planned and arrived to his home in Iceland today.
The driving route from Novo to the fuel drop was 1500 km. In total the team drove over 3000 km in one of the most hostile environment in the world. They drove from sea level up to 3.500 m altitude. The temperature varies from -20 C to -50 C.
The modified Toyota has improved them self as a solid equipment in the Antarctica environment as well being efficient regarding fuel consumption and operation cost compared to other vehicles.
Arctic Trucks congratulate the team, Gisli Karel, Gisli Jónsson, Freyr, Andrey and Mike Herbert for excellent performance. They have completed difficult tasks and once again approve the advantage of the Arctic Trucks concept.
It will be exciting to hear from the guys and get their travel story.
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