Expedition Overview Beginning on 15th March 2017, Breaking the Cycle Yukon was a 4-week extreme cold training expedition through the Canadian Arctic. Working with local expert Bob Daffe, who has been exploring and guiding in Yukon for more than 40 years, I followed a route of approximately 900km from Fort McPherson on the Dempster Highway to […]
Polar Training
Northeast Greenland
Breaking the Cycle Greenland expedition was the first winter cycling expedition in Northeast Greenland and the second polar training expedition in preparation for Breaking the Cycle South Pole. Here’s Kate’s report about her experiences and what she learned from the adventure: The Nordlandair flight from Akureyri, Iceland’s northerly capital, just below the Arctic Circle, to […]
Svalbard
In March 2013, Kate, along with Australian polar guide and expedition leader, Eric Philips, renowned Swiss documentary filmmaker, Claudio von Planta and remote locations photographer and filmmaker, Phil Coates from the UK travelled to the island of Spitsbergen in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard to work out whether Kate’s dream of cycling across Antarctica was […]
