Boots

Today I went to the IPF (International Polar Foundation) to pick up our boots. We hire them from the IPF, an organisation that communicates and educates on polar science and polar research as a way to understand key environmental and climate mechanisms.

The boots we'll wear are handmade and developped especially for expeditions to polar regions and protect against extreme cold. They exist out of two pair, an inner boot which is soft and very comfortable to wear and an outer boot, very hard robust and that you click into the ski's. Most of the boots were in, but some are still on their way from the supplier. Amongst them mine. As I suffered in Iceland from blisters that started to inflame and produce puss as a result of friction - my boots were a bit to big - I don't wanna take any risk. But I'll have to be patient for a couple of more days, together with 4 other expeditionist, whose size was not available neither.