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Arctic foxes


The Arctic Foxes arrived back in the UK on 5 June and thanked the Met Office for the weather forecasts they received during the expedition. Felicity Aston said: "They were depressingly accurate. It seems to have been our misfortune that when the winds were in the right direction they were either really strong or very, very weak. But thank you very much for all your help, we couldn't have done it without you."
 
The team

In May 2006 the Arctic Foxes - meteorologist Felicity Aston and teammates Jenny Pugh, Jo Vellino and Rachel Pearson - hope to become the first British all-female team to cross the Greenland ice-cap. The ice-cap is a hostile terrain, with Arctic winds and temperatures as low as -40 °C.

The Foxes will brave this unforgiving environment as they trek 1,300 km, from Kangerlussuaq in the west to Ammasilik in the east and back. Part of their reason for going is so they can raise awareness about the effects of climate change on Greenland.
 

While they are in Greenland they will be in daily contact with the Met Office, to receive weather information, in particular wind speed and direction. This information will help them make much better tactical decisions about when to kite and when to ski.

Arctic Foxes web site
 

For more information on their trek visit the Arctic Foxes web site.