While providing valuable support to us, our product sponsors are also taking the opportunity to showcase their equipment in a global range of conditions over a period of time that will dramatically demonstrate their durability and effectiveness. We are happy to be partners with them in this process as Team 2000 travels from north to south, linking people and places in the spirit of Pole to Pole.

Cascade Designs
Thermarest and Z-Rest sleeping pads keep the team insulated and warm at night from the minus 30 degree Celsius snow. These lightweight pads compact into a very small space in order to reduce weight and bulk on the sleds, which the team is hauling. The Z-Rest is a great replacement for traditional roll-up mats which stay rolled up at extreme cold temperatures leading to a very lumpy bed. When the Thermarest and the Z-Rest are used together it results is an amazingly comfortable lightweight bed.

Fischer Skis
Fischer cross country skis are lightweight and extremely strong. We know that each pound of weight on our feet is equal to 10 pounds on our backs which is why these strong, lightweight skis are critical to our speed of travel. The metal edges and fish-scale bases provide excellent traction and stability on a terrain of all types. Not only will they help the team travel quickly and with confidence over very rough ice, the graphics on them are great to look at for 60 days!!

Salomon Boots
The Salomon Greenland boot is our choice of boot because it is warm enough to handle temperatures of minus 30 degrees Celsius yet is still lightweight. The Salomon binding system gives excellent control over the ski, an important feature when navigating over ice blocks up to 20 feet high for several hours a day. The bindings system also reduces strain on the boot. Our experience with other boot systems is that the constant flexing and extreme cold can sometimes break up the boot or binding.

Slumberjack
The Slumberjack sleeping system is doing a great job of keeping the team warm. The system uses an insulator synthetic fill, a big advantage in the damp cold of the High Arctic. This insulator will not compress even though the condensation point and frost layer is in the sleeping bag. During the journey the bag is increasing in weight as the ice content increases, yet the bag still retains warmth and loft.

Smartwool
Smartwool socks keep their insulating power after days of pounding. (We are expecting 270 days of wear.) Those nasty wear holes that come from constant use in most socks, show up much later in these socks because of their quality. We are using 2-3 pairs each in our boots, and carry a couple of spares so that the socks used during the day can dry out in the tent while we cook.

MSR
MSR stoves and pots provide the lightweight system for cooking. We really love these stoves because of their reliability, and their ability to throw out lots of heat when needed - a very important quality when we climb into our cold tents at the end of a long cold day. The first thing we want is heat, and fast!! The pot system is really practical, well designed and easy to clean. In extreme cold we cannot use soap for cleaning, as water for washing out the soap is not available. The food freezes fast to the pot so we want the pot to clean out easily otherwise the breakfast tastes like the previous night's supper!!

Adventurous Traveler
Adventurous Traveler supplies us with books and roadmaps which provide essential information about the details of the route. The books include information on important facts of the country, money, customs, activities, accommodations and food. This is very helpful in educating the team while on the expedition.

CellTech
Celltech provides nutritional food supplements including Super Blue Green Algae. These daily food supplements improve athletic performance and help to boost the immune system. The teams overall health and energy levels is crucial in making this expedition successful and CellTech products assist in making this happen.

Adventure Medical Kits
These first aid kits are well organized, thorough, and easy to access. First aid kits have a tough life; they get sat on, wet, bumped and banged all over the place, yet they must perform when they are needed. We like Adventure Medical Kits because they are tough and still lightweight enough to be in the pack at all times.

Orbsat Telecommunications Services
Orbsat's Magellan GSC100 communicator is a very small, lightweight unit that allows us to receive and send e-mails from anywhere in the world. With this amazing little device we can send position reports and messages back to the office. This revolutionary technology increases our safety wherever we go.

Educo Adventure School Canada
Educo Adventure School has supported us by providing facilities and trainers for the wilderness section of the training. The Educo programmes are an excellent grounding for youth in outdoor skills and personal development.

GRIC Communications GRIC Communications is pleased to provide the Pole to Pole 2000 team with remote Internet access through the GRICtraveler(tm) service. So wherever in the world the Pole to Pole team may be, they can access the Internet in more than 150 countries. GRIC Communications is the leading provider of IP-based Internet services on a single, open standards-based platform to ISPs, telecommunications companies and other emerging communications providers. With its managed global GRIC Alliance Network(tm) of more than 350 service providers, GRIC delivers access and termination for IP telephony (voice and prepaid), remote Internet access, PC-to-phone solutions, and corporate secure remote access around the world. GRIC is headquartered in Milpitas, Calif., and has offices in the U.S., Asia and Europe.

Viewscape 3D
specializes in the modeling of the forest and projecting how development plans will impact the viewscape. Viewscape 3D provided the original global maps showing the Pole to Pole team's route across the planet.

Ocean Fun Tours
has a fleet of 29 boats for hire out of Panama City. The fleet is piloted by Capt. Tomas Golder, a certified and highly experienced captain. Captain Tomas joyfully donated his time and energy, sailing the Pole To Pole 2000 team across an 850-mile stretch of sometimes stormy, open water from Panama City to Esmeraldas, Ecuador on the centerpiece of their large fleet, the 38 foot sailing yacht Freedom. The fleet of 29 includes motor boats of all sizes, yachts with room for private parties of 75 and boats especially designed for scientific research - used in studies for the clean-up of Panama Bay and the eradication of the Barrenador worm in the islands of the Gulf of Panama.

Adventure Network International
is the only company in the world to supply logistics to expeditions to the interior of Antarctica. Adventure Network operates trips for climbers to the highest peak in Antarctica, Mount Vinson, guides expeditions to the South Pole, and to the most remote penguin colonies in the world. Their staff and logistics experience is extremely experienced in all aspects of remote guiding and logistics. Adventure Network will fly the team to their base at Patriot Hills and bring them back from their South Pole journey.

Nizhoni
is a sacred Navajo word describing "the beauty way". Nizhoni offers a new form of education that allows people of all ages from around the world to discover their inner wisdom and bring it forth to teach, heal and lead. Founded in 1989 by Chris Griscom, Nizhoni is a holographic approach to education which helps us find our place in the world and see the interconnectedness of all experience and knowing. Nizhoni is an international boarding and day school for primary grades and higher education students.

If you'd like to receive more information, or be added to a press e-mailing list, please send your request to office@pole2pole2000.com 

 Become a Sponsor for Year 2 of the adventure

---

Site by