The airplane came again two days ago with all the competitors, 16 people, and the film crew both the one we are working with and also two Norwegians that are filming for NFK and lots of other people as well. We have been very busy since, running around trying to fit all the things into the cars. Finally around 18 yesterday me and Tony took of. Dr. Deirdre is with us along with the BBC film crew. We will follow the skiers during the next days. Earlier yesterday, Gisli and Kenny took the sledges for the competitors towards ETL to save them some time. After some distance a tire felt into a crevasse in a place where we have been driving over a number of times, this reminds us to be careful. They left the sledges and drove back to Novo to get all the all the oil (jet fuel) and package their stuff. They have now already past us and are off to the start line. They will try to go a bit slower up to the high plateau to avoid mountain sickness. The cars are extremely loaded and heavy, the racks for the hard disks the film crew is using have limited all the space in the rear very much and people have brought all sorts of boxes and bags that have had to squeeze here and there on the cars or the trailers.
Hjalti V. Hjaltason
