The HLC

I have signed up for the HLC - the High Latitude Challenge - in 2029. Read about it here ( https://cornellsailing.com/2024/11/the-high-latitude-challenge-2026-2027/) It was quite the thing: you had to apply to be allowed to apply! It’s a proper expedition! It’s now become the focus of all my reading and learning, and a large part of my thinking and dreaming. I’m super pumped about seeing penguins and polar bears (from afar), and excited in a scared sort of way about crossing Drakes passage (infamous for scary seas), making it through the Northwest passage (only 500 boats have - so far…) and polar bears (up close). Feel like I’m rediscovering the adventurer I was in my twenties and she is so excited to come out again.