Having spent a frustrating 5 days holed up in the tent, awaiting the arrival of the resupply plane, we were mighty relieved to hear the engines of the Twin Otter approach yesterday.

As with all these things, it was very much a collaborative effort.  Thank you to Fred at the KBA office in Resolute, the KBA pilots, our Operations team and those at MDA who supplied us with the Radarsat 2 imagery that enabled us to find a suitable landing strip. To give you some idea of the importance of this imagery, the area of flat ice that we had been directed to (5 days earlier), was the first suitable landing strip the KBA pilots had seen during their 2.5 hour flight over the Arctic Ocean from Resolute.

We are obviously very keen to start heading North again. Although 5 days in the tent has ensured that we are well rested it has meant that we have lost some of our momentum and routine.

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