Ben Saunders: record-breaking polar adventurer, athlete and speaker

Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

- Joshua J. Marine

I had the pleasure last week of meeting with Ben Saunders; record-breaking polar adventurer, athlete and speaker. In two months, Ben will begin one of the toughest physical challenges ever undertaken: his aim is to ski solo and unsupported from Russia to Canada via the North Pole - a distance of 1,996km, lasting 3 months and in temperatures as low as -45°C. And I thought my cold shower this morning (read as: "Dear Landlord, I'm not paying any rent next month.") was physically and mentally unbearable. My face is still numb.

I'm very excited to be involved in assisting Ben with a redesign of his TransArctic Expedition 2004 website, which will happen over the next couple of months.

After two failed and decidedly late attempts at designing my own holiday greeting e-Card, I've given up on the idea and so instead will run with this simple blog post (feel free to simultaneously throw a streamer in the air for visual effect) to wish you and your loved ones a Merry Christmas/Happy Chanukah/Good Kwanzaa/Blessed Yule/Happy Holidays! (If you're suffering from SAD, please substitute this gratuitous call for celebration with suggestion that you have a thoroughly adequate day.)

If we can pull our shit together over here, we might end up burning a turkey and over-roasting a potato or two after all.

See you in 2004!