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It’s been three months since our incredible expedition to Northern Canada, so much has happened in that time…. Dave is back in shape and has further tuned and adjusted the kitesled, he just got back from testing it in 40+ knot winds in the icy Australian snow;

Ben has made great progress in the organisation of our Antarctic goal;

While I have lately been distracted somewhat by the arrival of our first child.

Looking back on those cold, cold days on the ice of James Bay, I’m amazed that we accomplished anything at all, such was the ghastly nature of our shocking vehicle accident * on the third day in country. We should really have sustained much greater injuries, disablement, or worse… but amazingly, after almost three weeks of recovery time, we were able to gingerly take on almost 500km of frozen ocean and succeed.

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2007 was a tragic year for the kitesled team.

We lost team member Andrew McAuley to the Southern Ocean, a painful period of soul-searching followed, which was helped by a training expedition to the mountains of Norway.

A selection of our old website posts from this bittersweet year are below.

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2006 was a wild year for the team…

Amongst other things Ben and Pat took their kitesleds across the Greenland Icecap on a challenging expedition where they learnt the hard way about the effects of climate change and what it is like to camp out in -40 degrees.

The updates that follow are a selection of what we posted in 2006.

2005 was the third year of the Icebird program…

It was the year we tested the second generation kitesled, and our team welcomed new members.

The news items below are a selection of what we posted on our old website in 2005.

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