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We wake up at 8 AM. The wind has blown all night. Druing the night, snow came inside tent absides, because our snow walls were not good enough. The eaves of the tents are full of snow: the stove is frozen and it's hard to lighten it; our shoes are buried and frozen too. Hopefully snow didn't come inside.

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Half-buried tent, in the morning

We lighten La Grosse Berta again. Now it weight around 63 kg. The norwegian sledges about 100 and 92 kg. The Stauning's Alps have disappeared yesterday. That's the first day we ski 8 hours. The last two are difficult. All day we have to ski through thousands of zastrugis and barkanes and the ice cap is still climbing up. Furthermore the head wind is picking up again in the afternoon.

Franck and Manu start to have some problems with their ski bindings: they move out from the ski. This is an embarassing problem

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Another day ending on the icecap

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