The YEs have had a while to think over how they would like to spend their last full week. The choices were; Glaciology, Biology, and/or their own project in either one of these areas, or mountain skills. To do their own project they had to decide and submit a proposal to the Chief Leader on 31/5/2010 by 1800hrs. Once all the proposals were submitted they were then discussed amongst the leader team, and leaders volunteered for the different activities.

The resulting fires are as follows;

Isbjørn: ‘The Long Walk’
Pete, Kath; Fraser, Harry, Ankur, Ant, Flora, Matt, Jamie,
Their proposal to walk back to Longyearbyen via Sassendalen and Base Camp 1, arriving in Longyearbyen at the boat dock for 1100hrs on the 13th June.

Polarrev
Zoe, Steve, Liv, Will, Louis, Ellie, Lucy, Steph
Their proposal to have a mixture of mountaineering and walking back to Hiorthhamn to meet the boats on 13th June.

Rein
Alison, Hazel, James, Clement, Alysa, Calum
Their proposal a mixture of biology, botany, meteorology and mountains. After helping to load the boats up with all the excess kit, they then would walk round to meet the boats at Hiorthhamn on 13th June

Hvalross
Rosey, Sophie, Edd
Their proposal was to carry out glacial studies at the head of Wimandalen. They would also then help to load up the boats, before walking round to meet the boats at Hiorthhamn on 13th June.

Rype
Ade, Jackie

P.s. On the radio sitrep (daily radio communication) of 30/5/10 all of Rein wished Matt Hay’s sister Flora a very happy 16th birthday!