6th Annual Arctic Team Challenge

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Mittivakkat Glacier Ahead!

Jesper Kunuk Egede / 24.07.2006

Today, the teams have to do a relay biking race and then trek on land and glacier to the basecamp where we all stay overnight until tomorrow and the final looooooong expedition stage. Today’s stage is about 45 kilometers.

The French are not as loud as usual at the starting line. Instead Pierre-Etienne and Guillaume opt for a good luck hug at the starting line. Andrew Davies is not biking the first relay round and from the sideline he’s cheering not on his teammates, but his new best friends, the French: “Allez, allez!� he yells at the top of his lungs.

Gentleman Agreement
At the race briefing this morning, Race Director Hans Christian Florian makes a gentleman agreement with all the teams: “Last year there was so much competition between some of the teams and afterwards they were sorry that they could not enjoy the view from C6, the summit on the glacier. So let’s make an agreement: Everybody stays at least 10 minutes at C6 to enloy the view.� Andrew Davies applauds this like a madman. He was on one of the teams that rushed through last year.

Crash
Per Rasmussen of Team Neriusaaq/Thomas Kristensen is not looking too well. His hand is bandaged and he has scratches in his face. Yesterday, he took one hell of a crash, falling over the steer on his bike. “It’s not as bad as it looks, though,� he smiles.
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