Press release by Manus O’Callaghan Pat Falvey and Dr. Clare O’Leary were chosen as the Cork Persons of the Year yesterday (Jan 23rd ’09), to mark their historic expedition on foot to the South Pole, the first ever Irish expedition to do so. Last January (‘08) Pat and Clare ...
This is my first day back home since the 28th October 2007. I have been 90 days away and this is ...
Here is a link to the Late Late show from last friday… here Thanks to The Late Late ...
I was honoured to be invited to the Echo Ladies All Star Awards in Cork today at the Rochestown ...
10 am Thursday 17 January and we are awaiting our flight to Dublin and then we will travel from ...
This is always the part of my expeditions I dislike. Airports and flights. To come home we have ...
Following a conversation with the team today at noon irish time from their hotel in Punta Arenas, ...
14th January 11;30 pm I’m as excited about going home as I was in reaching the Pole. Our ...
14th January; Early morning alert, to leave the ice. Mark our friendly weather man has given the ...
13th January Sunday We are still held in her icy grip; This is our 75th day away from home 63 ...
12th January Home is calling,,,,,,stuck at the edge of Antarctica. Relaxed after a night sleep ...
Following a surreal 56-hour stay at the South Pole, it was a relief to see the twin otter arrive ...
South Pole Inn, Annascaul and everyone in Kerry – Crean Family – Tom Crean Society ...
Pat Falvey and Clare O’Leary have sent this message regarding Sir Edmund Hillary from ...
Pat contacted us here at 5.30pm yesterday to inform us they were given a green light for their ...
Following a phone call from the team today at 2pm, We have been informed they may get delayed ...
Hip, hip hoorah!! WE ARE AT THE SOUTH POLE!! I am so excited, I can hardly sit still to write ...
A call was just received confirming the teams arrival at the South Pole at 4.30 approx. Chilean ...
Pat called at 5pm Irish-time…“We are just stopping now for our last rest break.. we ...
7th January day 57. only 23 km to go. We can see it. The excitement is rising. Today we were all ...
6th January day 56 Sunday 6th January, day 56, 47km to go 1,099 km of manhauling done. We ...
Wow! I couldn’t believe it when Clare told me this evening that we only have 70km left to ...
5th January day 55 A heaven in hell…..What a beautiful day.. Camp; Joss Lynam and Jim ...
For any press or news people out there who need more information and images or content please ...
4th January day 54 Energy low, enthusiasm is high.. Friday,4th January, day 54, 95km to go ...
5 days to go, were exhausted…. O’ Leary Family camp. (from Clare) 3rd January day 53, 118km to ...
After a phone call from Pat and the team last night, they have decided to target the 8th to reach ...
‘Wake up, Freddy, it’s 6.10!’ I rubbed my eyes and tried to sit up. I ...
1st January 88.5326S,081.3476W Camp Shackleton, our hero. Shackletons 97 miles from the ...
31 December Happy new year from the ice. S88.3328 W 081.2294 Camp; Con Morairty. We are now ...
Yippee! Finally a rest day and a chance to celebrate Christmas. We’ve had a really tough ...
Day 47 28 December Position: S87.9184, W080.83335 Temperature: -15.8c wind chill -20c Weather: ...
Position: S87.5656, W082.6789 Temperature: -37c Weather: clear skies, very cold and huge pain in ...
Day 44 25 December Christmas day on ice….. Position: S87.3831, W083.4501 Temperature: ...
Day 43 24th dec Missing Christmas… Position: S87.2227, W084.0260 Temperature: -27c ...
The day after Pat’s back injury, he was still in alot of pain. We had no choice but to move ...
Day 42 23 December Camp; Tagney family, Black valley. Position: S87.0658, W084.5356 Temperature: ...
Day 41 22 December Really had a bad/low morale day… Position: S86.7014, W085.5313 ...
Day 40 21/12/07 Camp; Mike Barry. Position: S86.7014, W085.5313 Temperature: -15cto -18c ...
Hi everyone, we hope you are following the progress so far and enjoying the reading, its very ...
After Polly’s fall, she took a rest in Pat’s sled – her foot was hurting and she ...
Dec 19 As I dialled the number, I felt excited – I knew Tim would do his best to help me. ...
Day 39 Thursday 20th December Down to the ground in pain in agony… Position: S86, W086. ...
Day 38 19th December A miserable white out…. Position: S86.4957, W085.8810. ...
Dec 04 It was a long, long time to spend 8 months in a snowcave. I slept alot to try and forget ...
Day 37 Tuesday 18th December Yes, we have clear weather….brilliant Position: ...
Dec 17 I couldn’t wait to get to camp and try and find out about Santa Claus. I started ...
Day 36 17/12/07 Position: S86.0481, W086.4475 Camp Gerry Walsh. Oh no….we’ll go ...
Day 35 Sunday 16/12/077 Camp; Gerry Walsh. Position: S86.0481, W086.4475 Temperature: -15cto ...
Dec 15 When we got up this morning, it had snowed heavily. Our sleds were almost completely ...
Day 34 15/12/07 Camp site; Ger McDonnell. Position: S85.8486, W086.5923 Temperature: -12c ...
Day 33 14/12/07 When bad days get worst. Camp:South Pole Inn; Date: 14/12/07 Position: ...
Dec 13 The rest day passed all too quickly; I had great fun teaching Polly to ski and although ...
Day 32 Camp: Allied Forwarding; Position: S85.5057, W086.6798 Temperature: -8c Weather: ...
The alarm went off at 5.50am as usual. Outside we could hear the wind gusting; a quick look out ...
Dec 11 Finally a rest day; it had felt like it would never come. It was nice not to have to get up ...
Day 30, Dec 11th 07 The blizzard continues, as we weather it out today. We had a restless night ...
Day 29. To a special man. Camp, Broke Evans Broke was the son of Teddy Evans, who Tom Crean ...
For some of you who may not know, the ‘supported’ route that the team has taken is to ...
Dec 09 Before Freddy could think what to say, Polly squealed ‘Surprise!.. Hi Clare!’ ...
Shaun’s bad energy day. Camp: Ben Gordon (Jon’s cousin) Date: 9/12/07 Position: ...
Day 27 Camp: Isabella Gordon (Jon’s cousin) Date: 8/12/07 Position: S84.8364, W086.9121 ...
Dec 07. Freddy’s eyes shone with excitement; he couldn’t believe how brave Polly had ...
Camp: Sam Butler (Jonathon’s nephew) Date: 7/12/07 Position: S84.5989, W086.4098 ...
Day 25 6th, Dec, 2007 84.3695S,086.1305W Distance to Pole:623 km altitude 1573m Look, ...
Day 24 5th, Dec, 2007 84.1344S,085.4694W Distance to Pole:650 km altitude 1545m Its hard to ...
Dec 04 It was a long, long time to spend 8 months in a snowcave. I slept alot to try and forget ...
Day 23 4th, Dec, 2007 83.8978S,085.1516W Distance to Pole:677 km Another milestone, we are now ...
Camp: Liam (Shaun’s nephew) Date: 3/12/07 Position: S83.6791, W084.6142 Temperature: -12.7c ...
Day 22 3 Dec 2007 No contrast day, Arother good day in the freezer, all the team worked well ...
Dec 02 ‘So Polly, tell me everything from when I left you last year’, Freddy asked. ...
More news from Freddy who had an accident last week and is missing his friends and home. Freddy ...
Day 21 , Sunday, 2nd December 2007 83.4371S,084.2660W Distance to Pole:734km Nomads in a desert ...
Day 20 Saturday 1st December. 83.1927S,083.8098W Distance to Pole:757 km Time to relax!! We ...
Nov 30 When I finally opened my tired eyes, I thought I was seeing things; there in front of me ...
Day 19 Friday, 30th Nov, 2007 83.1927S,083.8098W Distance to Pole:757 km We all have them. ...
Distance to Pole:777km or just 7 degrees Had a great sleep last night, which is a hard thing to ...
82.8303S,083.2323W Distance to Pole:796km Its true to say that we need milestones to achieve our ...
Position: 82.5918S,082.8983W Distance to Pole: 824km I got up today full of enthusiasm after our ...
Camp: Jake (Shaun’s nephew) Date: 26/11/07 Position: S82.3880, W082.7956 Temperature: -15c ...
Camp: Aaran (Shaun’s nephew) Date: 25/11/07 Position: S82.1476 W082.6045 Temperature: -16c ...
Camp: Hannah (Shaun’s niece) Date: 24/11/07 Position: S81.9448, W082.4336 Temperature: -13c ...
Freddy is feeling the extreme cold through his fur more than ever in his teddy life, even when he ...
Camp – Parrot Everyone is feeling fine, still some blisters but our bodies are getting used ...
I was last talking to Pat on Tuesday evening when they were having a rest day. He sounded in great ...
Camp – Dudley Docker Our best day yet, 24km on an 8 hour march. 35 knot head winds, arrived ...
Camp – Stancomb Wills A great day, 22.2km traveled on a 7 hour march. Great weather too!
We are working hard on our map system, which has to be integrated and modified in many ways to get ...
Camp – Mortimer McCarthy (Irish polar explorer) Position: S81’10.499, ...
Camp – Tim McCarthy (Irish polar explorer) Position: S81’10.499, W081’46.467 ...
Camp: Patrick Keohane Date: 17/11/07 Position: S80.54.604, W081.36.033 Temperature: -25.5 c ...
Camp: Sport Corrantuathail Date: 16/11/07 Position: S80.43.319 W081.28.452 Temperature: -11.6c ...
Camp: Robert Ford Date: 15/11/07 Position: S80.31.075, W081.21.702 Temperature: -9.6c Weather: ...
Camp name – Tom Crean Date: 14/11/07 Position: S80.31.075, W081.21.702 Temperature: -21 ...
Camp name – Joe O’Leary Date: 13/11/07 Position: S80.20.577, W081.11.944 Temperature: ...
Camp name – Niall Foley Date: 12/11/07 Position: S80.04.999, W080.33.044 Temperature: -10 ...
Last night we were put on a twelve hour standby for flying. We are happy that all the technical ...
A lot of work has gone into planning the food for this expedition. On Greenland I lost over 12kg ...
See Punta Arenas – Food for Exped – The ultimate diet!
The most incredible flight took us from Chile to Patriot Hills on Antarctica a distance of 3000km. ...
It was a relief to finish with out gear; it is amazing that items from Ireland, the UK, Norway and ...
At 10am this morning we gathered at Club Croatia with ALE staff and other expeditions preparing ...
A 6am start this morning to get down to the arduous task of sorting and packing our food and gear ...
Everybody in ALE is extremely busy preparing for the first flight this season of the Illuyshin ...
We’ve been busy meeting with the various people at ALE ensuring that everything is in order for ...
The Expedition has truly begun. We are here in Punta Arenas, the southernmost city in the world ...
It was a comfortable 14,000 KM flight that brought us 36 hours from Dublin to Punta Arenas in ...
A grey and overcast day at Dublin airport, but inside things are much brighter as all our ...
The second part of the beyond endurance TV series is to air tonight at 7pm on RTE 1. The ...
At the last minute we discovered our solar panels have been playing up and not producing the power ...
On Friday 26th October, I went to visit The South Pole Inn with Jonathon in Anascaul, Co. Kerry to ...
We have heard that Freddy has received permission to leave school in preparation for his long ...
The BBC interviewed Jonathon before he arrived in Ireland to join the team. You can view the ...
We are still waiting on vital pieces of equipment to arrive from our suppliers all over the world: ...
We are urgently waiting for Clare’s sledge to arrive back from Greenland. Last seen at Old ...
Phase 1 – Crossing South Georgia will air on RTE from today for the next 4 weeks. We will be ...
With the inevitable stress that builds up in the final days of an expedition that has been in ...
Out of all the items of equipment and supplies we need for the South Pole and Beyond, the food is ...
With such an unvaried diet for the expedition, it is imperative that we test all the food to ...
All of our food has been sourced from all over the world and has arrived here in Kerry at our base ...
We have now completed the first leg of the Expedition to South Georgia, So our next objective the ...
Following a phone call at 16:45pm irish time, 13:45pm Greenland time, Pat Falvey, Clare ...
A call from Pat confirmed they were still going strong through whiteout conditions and strong ...
The team rang yesterday evening as they dashed to make the flight to Copenhagen this morning for ...
The trio called me on Friday evening to discuss their options, they had made some progress through ...
Approx. 80km from the western edge of Greenland, the 3 adventurers are battling with an endless ...
What a day! Due to global warming we’re encountering a large number of melt water rivers, ...
Dye 2 on Sunday. It appeared out of the mist like some long forgotten alien artifact, a great ...
Pat called me on Wednesday evening in great form. He said they were all well except for his sled. ...
As the day progressed the blizzard relented and we could just see the sun briefly filtering ...
Due to our slow progress in the afternoons over the soft snow we decided to get up at 3:30am and ...
Our progress these last couple of days has been somewhat hindered by continuous snowfall which ...
Its finally on our screens, well kinda. RTE have just released their upcoming schedule of ...
We’re now hauling well, making over 25km per day. We’ve 224km to go till Dye 2, a ...
We have just covered 28 kms today in whiteout conditions, we also confirmed that one of Charlie ...
Its 0607 in the morning, feet are sore, otherwise in good form, after a good meal and building up ...
All is well overall, sadly we departed the other group as we are now going our separate ways. We ...
Short message from Pat indicated they traveled 18km today and are finally getting momentum ...
Well, we’re finally out of the bumpy stuff and onto the snow. Unfortunately, the other team ...
There were two teams that left Kulusuk at the same time. Ours and an international team led by ...
Its been a tireing day! We spent the morning ferrying our sledges across crevasses, some quit ...
Today was hell. As we made our way up the glacier the bumps I described yesterday became larger, ...
We’re finally on the ice! After precariosly lowering the sledges into some old fishing boats ...
Well, we’ve finally packed our sledges! We estimate that each team member will be hauling ...
The weather today has been bright and sunny, about 20 degrees centigrade, with a 3 knot arctic ...
We flew into the west coast yesterday and caught a small propeller plane to Kullusuk on the east ...
Now their fourth time heading to Norway this year, Pat, Clare and Shaun had a great few days up in ...
We have just confirmed our 2008 voyage which will take place in November, keeping the itinerary ...
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