• Polar skills training ✅
• Expedition Training ✅
• Crevasse Recognition and rescue training ✅
• Navigation Training  39-day full east to west crossing of Greenland ✅
• 2-week solo expedition, Hardangervidda, Norway ✅
• Tyre-pulling, running, strength training, mindfulness, kit routines practised ✅
• Funding secured ✅
• ……… Sign off from ALE (Antarctic Logistics and Expeditions) ✅

I am (pretty much) there with just a few weeks left before I fly to Antarctica. Phew! It’s only from looking back, that I can see just how far I have come.