Hi Everyone
For those of you that have been covering the amazing Pittarak Expedition check this news out just in from Eric, Sarah and Curtis now into week 4 of their 2300km South - North crossing of Greenland
412 km in 24 hours! Is that a World record?

Read on for Sarah’s latest news and blog. Also check out there Expedition website which they update every 2 days

Cheers
Matt - Ozone

By Sarah Landry >> Week 4:

“Moving further away from the southern tip, the winds have been blowing more constantly and we’ve been racking up the km, averaging between 150 and 200km per day!

The days have been long, kite-skiing sometimes for periods of 13 hrs plus.
We have put our Ozone kites to the ultimate test, and have been truly impressed.  Flying them constantly through all conditions pulling heavy sleds covering huge distances, we have not had a single failure or any snapped lines so far!

When we are too tired to continue kiting, or the winds have died we are in the tent doing our daily chores.  Cooking meals and melting enough water for our thermoses is a full time job.  We also have to recharge our electronics using solar panels. Other jobs include updating our website blog and keeping a trip log. 

Once all of the above is done it is our favorite time of the day: bed time!
But we only sleep 8 hours before we head back outside to start kite-skiing again.

July 1st: Canada day marathon

We headed off the night of June 30th at 9:30pm.  The winds were blowing 30km/h from the South East.  With our Ozone kites in the air we flew across the ice cap.  It wasn’t till a couple hours into the night that we had the idea to push our limits to see how far we could possibly travel in 24 hours.

We had till 9:30pm on July 1st, and we were off to the races! For the first part of the night the winds were awesome, but they didn’t co-operate for the entire day.  We switched our kites numerous time, working for every km we gained. 

We were all exhausted, re-evaluating at every break to make sure everyone still was physically and mentally up for continuing.

We blared the music in our head phones to stay awake, and as soon as my watch read 9:30pm our kites were down.  Heavy eyed, we set up camp and checked our GPS.  We had just covered a distance of 412 km in 24 hours! We celebrated with some scotch before passing out, sleeping for more than 12 strait hours!
Sarah”