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Our Documentary Trailer Released, Paddling the Cold Edge.

      Finally Jaime has edited a teaser for our upcoming documentary that will be released in the later part of 2017. Enjoy and check back here for more details on the full release. Paddling The Cold Edge Trailer, a World First Journey in a Land of Ice and Bears : Svalb
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Rookies and Rifles

  It feels like a long time coming, but Jaime, PG and I have finally come together for the first time.  I flew from New Zealand, and Jaime from Canada, and we have spent the past 5 days at PGs home in Molde, Norway. I was maxed out with 30kgs of checked luggage and another 16kgs
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Training on Te Anau

Yesterday with strong north west winds forecast, I figured that it would be a good day for a downwind run on the lake, an opportunity to clock some km’s moving a little faster than my usual guiding pace, and to work on my paddle fitness. I loaded Slo onto my car and headed 30km up the
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Auckland Sea Kayaks & Rangitoto Island

Auckland Sea Kayaks Logo
A few months ago I received an email out of the blue from Nic Mead of Auckland Sea Kayaks. He’d heard about our Svalbard mission and was keen to help, offering to put on a fundraising paddle in which he would donate the profits of the trip to our cause. Nic spent six years living and
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Custom kayaks and pre trip preparation

  Less than two months to go until the team stands on the remote shores of the Svalbard Archipelago in Norway. Our preparations are coming together, we have received immense support from people and sponsors, and now we can all feel like this is really happening. Yesterday I recei
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Zegul Kayaks has Become the Expeditions Presenting Sponsor

We are all blown away that Zegul Kayaks has come on board as our Presenting Sponsor, providing us with Custom Arrow Empower Kayaks that we even get to keep after the trip. WOW this is huge. The Arrow Empowers will be custom made to our needs, starting of with Zeguls Rock Solid layup,
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