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    Equipment Menu
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 Sledges
 Tent
 Sleeping Bags
 Clothing
 Shoes
 Skis
 Stove and Cooking Pot  Complete List

 


 

 

 

 Type & Weight Description
COLLECTIVE
45 Kg
Tent
Snow shovel
2 Ice-hammers
2 30 m 6 mm ropes
2 Brush
Kevlar stove housing
MSR stove (wisper lite 600) with fuel canister and MSR pump
Cooking pot with double wall
Cover pot for snow pre-heating
Snow scoop
Fuel funnel
46 liters of fuel (Coleman white gas)
Urinal
First aid kit
Etc.
SPARE AND
REPAIR KIT
9.5 Kg
MSR stove with canister
Pump and maintenance kit (gaskets, etc.)
Lighter
Waterproof safety matches
Epoxy glue
2 Rolls of strappal
A piece of metal saw
Ski edge sharpening file
Sandpaper
4 Large rivets
Seamgrip
2 Therm arest patches
Assortment of nuts and bolts
metal wire
Safety pins
Needle threader
Sewing kit (etc.)
Fabric tape
4 Buckles 25mm/40 mm
Multi-function pliers (with screwdriver pozidriv n°3.', etc.)
2 Spare pre-glued skins
Cables for telemark bindings
Accessories for binding repair with screws
Thin 3 mm and 4 mm rope (200 m)
4 Small carabiners
Screws and medium nails
2 Swiss army knives
Parafoil rope and special repair tape
Spare nasawing with handles (6, 12, 21 m2.)
Pole repair kit
Electrical wire and tape
Small voltmeter.
PERSONAL
GEAR

(on the sledge)
34.50 kg
Closed-cell foam mattress
Small thermarest self-inflatable mattress
Sleeping Bag
2 Stuff bags
Organiser bag OR
down jacket
Polar fleece pants and sweater (night)
Down booties
Sledge
Second pair of skis and bindings for sailing
Unbreakable thermos (1.8l)
Lunchbag
Eating bowl
2 spoons
Cup
Lighter
Nasawing with handles (6, 12, 21 m2.)
8 Liner socks
2 VBL latex
Thick Fox River socks
Briefs
4 Thin gloves
woollen mittens
2 Wind over-gloves
2 polar mittens
2 Balaclavas
Neck-warmer
Polar Fleece
Sweater
Personal hygiene bag (etc.),
Toilet paper
Notebook and writing pads
MD walkman with 10 mini-disks and lithium batteries
Files
Playing cards
Sun-glasses
Storm mask with face protection
Simple storm mask
PERSONAL
GEAR

(on the body)
(12.5 Kg)
Boots
Liner socks
VBL
Thick socks
Windpants
Capilene sweater and (below -30°C) polar fleece sweater
Outer layer windjacket
2 Balaclava
Woollen mittens
Thin gloves
Sun-glasses
Pulling harness
Ski sticks
Pair of skis with small skins
Small compass
Anemometer
3 Medium carabiner
2 ice-screws
Auto-blocking ascender
Pulley
Whistle
2 5mm rope slings
NAVIGATION
(0.60 kg)
Maps
2 GPS with lithium batteries
Silva compass TYPE 15
Altimeter
Small flag
COMMUNICATION
12.80 kg
COMPAQ Personal Computer
Satellite transmitter
Argos transmitter
Emergency light transmitter
Battery kits
CAMERA
5.80 Kg
Nikon FM2 camera with two lens + skylight
Contax T2
2 Small black boxs
40 Rolls of films with latex film covers
2 Sony video cameras DCR PC7E with separate lithium battery pack
10 Digital video cassettes
Small camera tripod
Lithium battery packs.
FOOD
208.00 Kg
Rations (100 days) :
15 days with 4602 kcal/day: 12.15 kg (X2)
20 days with 5636 kcal/day: 20.00 kg (X2)
65 days with 6206 kcal/day: 70.20 kg (X2)
Total packaging : 1.400 kg
Extra food (Sunday and Christmas dinner) and vitamins complex : 1.90 kg
SCIENTIFIC
MATERIAL
5.30 kg
A mini-ice core sampler (a titanium tube, several centimetres long and a few centimetres in diameter),
All the little bottles for the samples
Plate and scales for the density,
Thermocouple
ANENA table
Magnifying glass and data tables.

 

TOTAL WEIGHT : 356 Kg

Total weight per person : 178 Kg

 


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