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Pole to Pole
Day 5: Ny Alesund to Kap Wik
After five hours we grind to a halt, our vehicles stuck in deep fresh-fallen snow at the top of a pass, still barely halfway to the trapper's hut. Bars of chocolate, nips of Scotch and stupendous views keep spirits up as Geir, Heinrich and the team make repeated journeys down the valley to bring up machines that couldn't make it to the top. Once all of them are up on the ridge they have to be refuelled, a slow laborious job, as is anything which involves unloading the trailers.We are rewarded with a long exhilarating run on wide downhill slopes to our first ice-crossing - on the frozen headwaters of the Ehmanfiord. The surface is scratched and rutted, and it's only on the last stretch that the ice is smooth enough to open out, and we ride like invading Mongol hordes toward the tiny, isolated cabin on Kap Wik where, somewhat improbably, we are to spend what remains of the night.
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- Series: Pole to Pole
- Day: 5
- Country/sea: Norway
- Place: Kap Wik
- Book page no: 20
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