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Ed's Frog MessageBlog Archive17th June 2010 - Ricky Gervais and the Bible... 20th May 2010 - Caught with our pants down 15th April 2010 - How dangerous are jaguars really? 18th March 2010 - A Hungry Anaconda? 4th March 2010 - Ed's Rotten Arm 18th February 2010 - Paddling across the 'Meeting of the Waters' 4th February 2010 - Damming the Amazon 21st January 2010 - Dedication 7th January 2010 - Swamp Donkey 17th December 2009 - A Little Bit Scared 3rd December 2009 - Scratched and Confused 19th November 2009 - Oil Under the Jungle 29th October 2009 - Watch out for the CAIMAN! 15th October 2009 - On our own in the jungle 1st October 2009 - Trench Warfare 17th September 2009 - The Island of Food 3rd September 2009 - Food Dreams 27th August 2009 - Heavy packs and the search for fish
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1st April 2010 - Polar Ben Nearly ten thousand kilometres north of the Amazon, just off the coast of Canada, Ben Saunders, my old mate, is in a pickle. He's been attempting to break the speed record to reach the North Pole
on foot. Only three days in, a fuel bottle cracked and leaked kerosene
over the specialist polar rations. 70% were spoiled. The Arctic's
seasonal window of opportunity is so small that Ben has had to call off
the expedition and book his flight home. Cho's and my big decision today was whether sardines en croute would work over the fire. We've brought flour with us on this leg and are pushing back the boundaries of expedition pastry-making. As Ben would say, "Grrrr!".  Ben had to chuck in his
last attempt in 2008 due to a cracked ski
binding. It has taken him two years of recovering, reorganising and
re-sponsoring to get this current attempt off the ground. Right now
Ben's whole life revolves around this and it would seem that it has
gone wrong for him... again. Join us on 22nd April for the next installment and don't forget to check out our new Question of the Week video - and send in your questions to us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it !
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Ed
Stafford is an explorer. Like Captain Scott of the Antarctic and Sir
Ranulph Fiennes before him, he has a passion for discovering and
learning about the vast planet that we all live on. Today, so many of
the great expeditions have already been done by explorers of the past.
There are no longer many things that people can do and say, "I was the
first person in the world to do that!" 
