Container Blog – Tues 12th May
Today felt like a big step forward in bringing the Greenland expedition to life as we waved off the shipping container full of all our group kit from the BSES stores in Hampshire. Many of the leader team spent a couple of days before the briefing weekend breaking the back of the enormous task of packing for the expedition; counting out all the mountaineering kit, shopping for food and checking tents had all the right bits in them. Since then it been a busy few weeks of sourcing any extra kit we will need, servicing stoves and finalising a deal with the army to borrow two of their inflatable boats for the summer. With all this in place the day finally arrived when we would see if all these mountains of kit and food would actually fit in the container! Thankfully it did and at 2.30pm we wedged the doors shut and waved our bright blue 20 foot container off on its 6 week journey to Nanortalik. Looking forward to meeting it again at the other end!