Ripcord Adventure Journal 2.4
Our final issue of volume 2 is quite a mixture of adventure and exploration of the world's polar regions, deserts, oceans, mountains and jungles. In our Guest Editorial, Leon McCarron ventures in to the hills of Jordan as part of his 1000-mile journey on foot, across the Middle East, when he encounters an unexpected musical interlude on a lonely hillside. Planning is essential for major expeditions, even more important to have several back-up plans in case the first one or two, or three do not pan out as expected. Mark Wood brings us behind the scenes of planning for a polar expedition. Technology in the classroom has been touted for more than 2 decades as the next big thing. Here, Joe Grabowski, whose nascent organisation "Exploring by the Seat of Your Pants" has demonstrated that indeed technology can be the medium by which exposure to new and exciting educational contexts can be brought in to the classroom from the real-life connections with explorers, conservationists and scientists in the field. Former Marine Commando, John Sullivan gives us an introduction to what it takes to survive in the desert using the skills and experience he has built up from his time in the forces, leading expeditions and working with film crews on location. What does it take to circumnavigate the globe on one's own, what drives an adventurer to take on and complete such demanding challenges? Erden Eruc takes us with him on his life's journey across oceans and continents. Finally, we catch up with emergency medical doctor Claire Grogan and Mark Hannaford of World Extreme Medicine to discuss the fast-paced world of extreme medicine.
Our final issue of volume 2 is quite a mixture of adventure and exploration of the world's polar regions, deserts, oceans, mountains and jungles.
In our Guest Editorial, Leon McCarron ventures in to the hills of Jordan as part of his 1000-mile journey on foot, across the Middle East, when he encounters an unexpected musical interlude on a lonely hillside.
Planning is essential for major expeditions, even more important to have several back-up plans in case the first one or two, or three do not pan out as expected. Mark Wood brings us behind the scenes of planning for a polar expedition.
Technology in the classroom has been touted for more than 2 decades as the next big thing. Here, Joe Grabowski, whose nascent organisation "Exploring by the Seat of Your Pants" has demonstrated that indeed technology can be the medium by which exposure to new and exciting educational contexts can be brought in to the classroom from the real-life connections with explorers, conservationists and scientists in the field.
Former Marine Commando, John Sullivan gives us an introduction to what it takes to survive in the desert using the skills and experience he has built up from his time in the forces, leading expeditions and working with film crews on location.
What does it take to circumnavigate the globe on one's own, what drives an adventurer to take on and complete such demanding challenges? Erden Eruc takes us with him on his life's journey across oceans and continents.
Finally, we catch up with emergency medical doctor Claire Grogan and Mark Hannaford of World Extreme Medicine to discuss the fast-paced world of extreme medicine.
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Plan D<br />
Mark Woods<br />
for a plane to land - so their concerns were real. As a team,<br />
we made the tough decision to abort the attempt from the<br />
North Pole to Canada - the reality of climate change was<br />
truly affecting the expedition long before we even had the<br />
chance to set foot on ice.<br />
As mentioned before, this is the point when we learnt that<br />
the Russian government had launched a military exercise<br />
with their Parachute regiment and over 100 soldiers were<br />
based at Camp Barneo. Aside from the Visa issues we had<br />
encountered we speculated that it was this activity that had<br />
delayed our insertion date of the 1st April and the cracked<br />
runway was only part of the story.<br />
Plan D<br />
The Mission statement revisited<br />
Throughout this whole procedure, we were determined not<br />
to be distracted from the original Mission statement, “To film<br />
the harsh honest reality of how global warming has affected<br />
the Arctic Ocean through the eyes of modern day polar<br />
explorers”<br />
We approached VICAAR with a request to be inserted on to<br />
the ocean via helicopter at 88 degrees north to cover the last<br />
two degrees to the North Pole. We received a negative<br />
response from VICAAR who wanted to drop us closer to the<br />
pole as the ice was extremely unstable at 88 degrees. Their<br />
helicopter crew had reported seeing mass open water and<br />
fast-moving ice. We held tough on our request because we<br />
had all of the flotation equipment and training necessary to<br />
deal with this and our main objective was to capture this<br />
unusual activity anyway.<br />
A Green Light was given and at last we finally received the<br />
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