Extreme Frontiers: Racing Across Canada from Newfoundland to the Rockies (22 page)

Russ making sure Extreme Frontiers leaves its mark on Mount Fable.

An enormous ice-road truck on a decidedly un-icy road in Inuvik, Northwest Territories.

Russ and I battle against the mosquitoes in Tuk, Northwest Territories.

There’s gold in them thar hills. Panning for gold in the mining town of Dawson City in the Yukon.

Arriving on the Discovery Ice Field for my ‘escaping from a crevasse’ training!

Canada really does have some of the most beautiful scenery in the world, and we were lucky enough to see more of it on our
way to the crevasse.

Lowering myself – voluntarily! – into the crevasse with my guide, Sian, watching from above. She made getting out again look
easy, but I doubted it would be so simple.

Getting a few gliding tips from pilot Rudy.

Gliding high above the hills in British Columbia with Rudy. Moments later he would take the glider into a loop-the-loop …
and my stomach would do the same!

What goes up …

… must come down. On foot. After tumbling off my bike, we walked them over a particularly icy part of the route.

Hurtling down the mountain on a push-bike was exhilarating, but my first love will always be the motorbike.

Going underground. We’d been east, west, north and south, 3,000 metres up and now we were 70 metres below at the Horne Lake
Caves on Vancouver Island. We really had pushed every frontier Canada had to offer.