Checking in after Days Four and Five, when we've made some decent mileage: 53 and 41 kilometers, respectively. The numbers are below our target daily average of around 60 kilometers, but we had to slow down and walk once we hit some ice rubble. As you can tell from the video, we're incredibly tired, and it's super cold, damp inside our tent, and windy–but we're hanging on. We'll be ready to get going again tomorrow.
–Kevin Vallely and Ray Zahab
In March 2010, and will embark on the . They will run 65 to 70 kilometers per day across the frozen surface of ,which is 636 kilometers long–carrying all the food and gear for theentire trip. They'd like to finish in 10 to 12 days, which would be aworld record, according to Vallely. Why go through such trouble? Toraise awareness and funding for clean drinking water projects aroundthe world and inspire students through the . This is the seventh in a series of their dispatches for国产吃瓜黑料 Online.