A four man British expedition team, led by polar explorer Tom Avery, is due to set off from the UK on the 5th May 2015, with the aim of breaking the world record for the fastest crossing of Greenland. Team mates Patrick Woodhead, George Wells and Andrew Gerber will make up the experienced team.

The team holds the record for the fastest surface journey across the North Pole set 10 years ago however, for this expedition, the 67N team will be using snow kites for the majority of the crossing, and hope to achieve speeds of up to 45kph. The current record for a coast-to-coast crossing of Greenland was set in 2008 and is 17 days, 21 hours and 30 minutes achieved by Patrick Peters and Matt Spenceley, a Luxembourg/British pair. A handful of teams (from Canada, Norway and Sweden) have crossed Greenland’s ice cap in faster times, but the 67°N team’s goal is the full coast-to-coast record. They aim to complete the Greenland crossing, made famous by Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen in 1888, in just 10 to 12 days – a challenge many have deemed too ambitious. By comparison, Nansen’s legendary crossing, which sparked “The Heroic Age of Polar Exploration” took 49 days. 

Click www.67n-greenland.com to visit our website and follow the team.

Tom, Patrick, George and Andrew are delighted to be supporting A Spoonful of Sugar.  The team’s few weeks of suffering on the ice pales into insignificance compared to what these brave kids have to go through every day.  The team very much hopes that you will get behind them by donating to this fabulous cause.