I appreciate our updates have been few and far between of late; there’s a lot going on that I’d love to talk about, but that we sadly have to keep under wraps until the expedition is launched formally next month.

For now, here’s a short insight into some of the training we’ve been doing as a team recently, under the watchful eye of our coach, Andy McKenzie and on the slopes of Surrey’s Box Hill, which only a few days previously had hosted the Olympic road race. At a mere 224m (735ft) it isn’t quite Mount Erebus, but it’s a short drive from London, and for our purposes it was plenty steep enough.