The wind is quieter now, but there are huge snowdrifts behind the tents. Despite our efforts to seal the flysheets to the tents, snow has infiltrated between the two canvas and the holes we did to cook and to put our shoes are full of snow. We begin to ski around 10 h 30 PM. There is a cold one fourth head wind (-15 °C) that penetrate our windstopper pants.

Thirty minutes after departure Alex and Manu who had not put their Lycra tights have to do a pause to put a windstopper hood in their boxer shorts, because some noble part of them is freezing. This is a good illustration of one of the great danger when you deal with northern conditions. Sometimes the weather changes so rapidly and the wind is so bad that you cannot change your clothes.

Later, we try our kites but the we don't succeed in making tacks. We just fall a lot. The use of kites with heavy pulkas seems profitable only with backwards winds. It's possible to deal the head winds, but it's too hard: it's a loose of time and energy and it's a risk of falling. You better ski. We loose one hour and then we continue to ski. As the day go on, the wind decreases and the snow becomes very comfortable to ski. The zastrugis and barkanes have disappeared and our progression speed increases. But we have to deal with a steep slope the last hour and we are nearly destroyed as we stop. But we still have to pitch the camp and to cook. We finally go in our sleeping bag at 1 PM.