6th Annual Arctic Team Challenge
Countdown has started to ATC 2006
Jesper Kunuk Egede (Photos courtesty Feed the Machine) / 21.07.2006
ATC 2006 starts tomorrow, Saturday July 23 at 10:00 Greenlandic time (GMT -3). Today Friday is the day of preparations. At 12:00-3:00 PM, the teams were allowed to check out the canoes in which they are going to spend a considerable amount of time over the next days. To some teams, this idea is horrid while others are really looking forward to the canoe parts of the race.The weather is beautiful. All over town and the nearby vicinity, you see team members checking out the landscape, wearing nothing but shorts and T-shirts (well, shoes, too ...). It\'s not as warm as last year\'s first day, but then again, with a heat record of +27°C on that particular day, this is hard to beat.
This year we have eight teams from almost as many countries. That is bending the truth a bit, as we have two teams from Greenland and two from Denmark, but we do also have teams from the United States, United Kingdom, Iceland, and France. It\'s actually the first time ever, that we have a French team joining the race. Also, we have never had an American team that actually made it over the finishing line while still in contest so a heavy burden is also resting on their shoulders.
Chance Encounter
What are the odds? Recruiting team members can happen in many ways. One of the more unusual ways of recruiting team members is when you find one while crossing the Greenland Ice Cap. Team Captain Amma Kleist of Arctic Ladies: “Recently, when I was crossing the Ice Cap with three other women, we suddenly met a group of British people crossing the Ice Cap in the opposite direction. One of them was Anna McCormack who was helping a woman in a wheel chair [!] cross the Ice Cap. We hit it off really well up there on the ice and decided that if we were a member short for our Greenlandic ladies’ team, we could just call Anna, and she’d show up. So we called and here she is!� See All Event Posts
