Deeper in Antarctica: Xavier De Le Rue checks in en route to the untamed continent
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By xavierdelerue | November 8th, 2009
November 8th, 2009
Here we are again "Antarctica take 2"!!!!
As you might remember we tried last year to reach and hopefully ride the wonderful untouched steeps of the Antarctica Peninsula... Unfortunately, we got on the boat in Ushuaia but stayed three days ashore for mechanical reasons until we got told that the boat could not be repaired....
We are back, and not for the least!
Jeremy Jones and myself along with the relentless film crew are ready for new up coming adventures! We are filming for Lives of the Artists 2, and the Jeremy Jones Deeper project. We are about to board the clipper adventure for a 40 hours boat ride across the scary "Drake Passage", supposed to be the worst crossing on the planet.... After that we'll have 7 days of actual riding...
We got split boards, all the hard gear we could ever need, we are fired up... All we can hope for are friendly weather and snow conditions. Let's see if mother Antarctica is willing to let us glide on the last continent...
Fingers crossed!
Follow our ship position live with the following link.
http://vtrack.gmn-usa.com/cgi-bin/fleet_setup.pl?fleet=iaato&password=ushuaia
Unselect all ship beside CPA on the upper right hand window and you’ll see where we are at.
Photos: playmakercommunication.com
**Arriving in ushuaia.... nice peaks arround, quite inspiring!**
**More views of the mountains around Ushuaia.**
**At the top of a really cool couloir overlooking ushuaia city and the beagle canal.**
**The crew with our 600 kg of equipment. Major gear.**
**Jeremy en route to the top of a sweet coulior.**
**Jeremy and I at the top of the couloir in ushuaia. It is good to get the legs going, the gear all fixed and dialed up.We are fired up!**
**Jeremy at the top of a steep coulior. Next stop Antarctica.**
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