3307 meters above sea level

If you've taken a look at our route map, you may have noticed that it is quite a long ways from Troll to South Pole - around 2800 km in fact.  To cover that much ground in only 60 days, requires a lot of driving.  Today we got underway around 8:30 AM, stopped a few times to fuel ourselves and the vehicles, and drove straight through until this morning.  As a result of our efforts, we covered the remaining 54 km to Site J, picked up 4 fuel drums after Site J, and covered the 58 km to Site K by the morning of the 24th, for a total of 112 km.  The plan is to keep rolling again, rolling again, rolling again all the way to our major fuel stop at Depot 700. In the photo, the vehicles are ready to go.

Sorry, we lost a puzzle-week due to major activity getting the traverse underway!  Below is the Polar Puzzle of the Week* for week 3, and the answer is below it.  A new Polar Puzzle 4 is on our web page - click on the Education button to see it!

Polar Puzzle 3:  The traverse team is running after the boxes that are being blown by the wind. Helgard is running ahead of Stein. Lou is not last. Glen is behind Atsu and Lou, in that order. Stein is not first. Atsu is behind Stein. Who is running at the front of the group?

Answer:  Helgard is running in front.

Adapted from A.F. Salny, The Mensa Genius Quiz-A-Day book, 1989.

Rolling again!