To acknowledge feats of failure, the team has devised an "Ovary award" for "general kiting incompetence and muppetry." It has been awarded to Landy, who, despite having navigated thousands of kilometers of the world's most inhospitable environments, set off one morning without his sledge and tent.
"The really low points are when you have a colostomy situation, where you crash the kite. It gets tangled up and it can take hours to sort out, and we'll be standing around in minus 50?C temperatures going nowhere," Sweet said.
The team is raising money for charity and along the way has spent time monitoring penguins.
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