Comments on: Guestbook

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 11 May 2008 09:30:02 +0000

hi ronny
hope life is good on the ice. Aurora think it`s so cool to tell about her coragous dad to everyone she meets )

By: Mike Reeves

Mike Reeves — Fri, 09 May 2008 11:24:29 +0000

Hope you are all well and surviving the bitter cold. Keep on pushing (or more optimistically kiting). We all look forward to your safe and victorious return.

Mike

By: Flip Byrnes

Flip Byrnes — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:31:06 +0000

Well, I made a record for crossing Greenland. 2 hours from Tassilaq to Ilulissat, but arriving by plane instead of by skis with my team was a little like losing an arm. I know so many people have been supporting the team and are dying for news, so here is a little.

To C and R’s mates and family, all the preparation they have done is paying off, they have been severly tested (172km of sastrugi) and have never lost their good humour and faith, rolling with the punches and stepping up to the plate. You should be really proud of what they are achieving, I know I am. They love all the messages so keep ‘em coming.

I’d like to stress the team kept me in the game to the end, treating blisters, sharing my pulk load, sharing giggles and pulling together. I didn’t get to the West Coast, but I gained something more intangible and just as worthy, the experience of being part of one hell of an incredible team. I consider myself so lucky to been surrounded by such company on an out-of-this-world journey. It was a privilege.

So I may be off the icecap but I’m not leaving Greenland until my little family – Ronny the Reindeer Slayer, Prince Harry and The Rocket Scientists – arrives safe and sound, praying for wind, already plotting more adventures and waiting here with ridiculous amounts of beer on ice and some shower gel for Rache.

I’m still an Arctic Kite.

Flip x

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:20:42 +0000

To Rai, Chris (& R, H & F)

I am truely inspired – keep going!! I would personally fly mars bars in if I could!!! But you will probably be finished by the time I get there from Sydney! However, I will be bring up a top bottle of wine when I visit in July!

Love Tim

By: Eric Philips

Eric Philips — Wed, 07 May 2008 23:47:12 +0000

Great effort Flip. Greenland, like any polar environment, is unforgiving and at times brutal. To have got this far, and inspired many along the way, is achievement in itself. Take the lesson from this trip and apply it to the next. Happy adventures.

By: Pat Spiers

Pat Spiers — Wed, 07 May 2008 21:14:42 +0000

Hi Ronny, good luck with the rest of the route, I’m willing the wind your way!!!
Flip. don’t know you but drop us a line when you are back in Sydney, we can share Greenland/Kite/Ronny/Bad luck stories ove a beer or something!

Pat

By: Sally Zylberberg

Sally Zylberberg — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:04:36 +0000

Remembering that happiness in life is not the destination, but the journey well travelled, I’d say “you’ve done it”!! A gracious exit from the fray for you Flip, but well done all for taking the safe decision in a timely fashion. I’m mightily impressed with all you have done. I will be donating to the Black Dog Institute in your honour. With love, from Sally, a friend of your Mum and Dad’s.

By: Julie & David Byrnes

Julie & David Byrnes — Tue, 06 May 2008 23:11:26 +0000

Thankyou Team for all the help you have given Flip – I know she appreciates your amazing generosity. We wish you all the good fortune in the world. We are so sad she had to leave but obviously made a brave decision. Cheers to you all.
Julie & David Byrnes

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 06 May 2008 10:56:26 +0000

Good luck, thinking of you, come back safely.

Love Rita

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 06 May 2008 10:54:23 +0000

Good luck, thinking of you in the cold.
love Rita.