north pole marathon

Here's a picture of Frank with about two laps to go. He's in his 70's and has run about 30 marathons to date. Once he gets Africa, he'll have run on all "8" continents (7 real continents + the North Pole).
Frank suffered frost bite on his hand and was wearing an insulated glove when we parted ways at the Oslo airport last night. He's a fantastic spirit who always has a story to tell you.
Sorry for the blur.. I had the camera on the wrong setting.
~B

This is the middle section of the course.. Hard and packed along the runway.

The last afternoon I went for a walk and found what appeared to be a dumping ground... It was a little disturbing - my guess is that some garbage bags from the plane were strewn all over the place from the jet blast when the plane turned around to take off..

Should I send this one to Pepsi and Coke?

Thanks to JetFuel for the crop job... This is a picture taken at "noon" at the North Pole... Somewhere along the first section of the course.

On our way back to Spitsbergen, I helped the cabin steward clean up after the meal service and my prize was a trip in to the cockpit midflight.. Here is a shot of the AN-72 landing at the Pole..

A picture is worth a thousand words, so I'll stop typing now...

The great thing about a multi-loop marathon is that you get to see everyone at least once..

This was right after finishing the marathon.. Not sure who these people are (we all looked pretty much alike)..