The team will be entirely self sufficient for the duration of the journey across Antarctica; carrying enough equipment, food and fuel for the whole expedition.
Food is calculated to provide the best possible weight to calorie ratio, and packaged carefully in daily rations. We must err on the side of too much fuel rather than too little. Run out of fuel, and the team run the risk of dying from dehydration, surrounded by the largest store of fresh water in the world, but being unable to melt it. We must travel with the least possible amount of equipment to keep the weights down and allow us to travel with the least possible expenditure of energy. Particularly for the first 10 days, when we will be hauling our fully laden pulks over the broken, crevassed, glaciers dropping down to Novolazarevskaya. Yet our equipment must be sufficient to withstand a quarter of a year on the ice, and keep us fit to complete our journey for the whole of its duration.
There are no end of challenges to PolarIce's undertaking, and the vast majority of them lie in the logistics.
