At the end of last year I was involved with the Kaspersky Lab Commonwealth Antarctic Expedition – a group of seven women from different Commonwealth countries who joined forces and skied to the South Pole.
Here are some things I enjoyed about the expedition:
- The application form for team members made no reference to fitness or prior experience
- The team included a mother, an IT worker, a government employee and an outdoors instructor (i.e. a mixed bunch)
- They only started training, and met each other for the first time, less than a year before standing at the South Pole
- Bilingual PodCasts
- The cool interactive map charting their progress
- The Mojo-Meter (whose great idea was that, anyway?)
- Trilingual PodCasts
- Their unfailing consistency over two months (just look at this map)
- They got a major sponsor in “these difficult times” (a beacon of hope to the rest of us)
- The level of involvement of their sponsor
- Eugene Kaspersky, the president of Kaspersky Lab, flew to meet them at the South Pole
- I got to work with Felicity Aston
- My old pal Helen got to ski with them after all her hard work
- They sang me a Christmas Carol down the satphone on Christmas Eve (albeit just before midnight when I had previously been asleep)
- They asked me to help
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