We´re very pleased to annnounce that Warren Miller Entertainment is coming with a group to shoot a segment in their new film. As all "real" skiers know, Warren Miller has produced skiing films for over 50 years and his films are renowned for their stunning photography, humour and include the best athletes found in the world of skiing. They produce new film every year and its screening marks the beginning of the skiing season. Warren Miller (age 84) started filming in Sun Valley after purchasing a camera when being discharged from the Navy in 1946. His reputation grew and soon making ski films became his life long passion and job, even though his philosophy has always been that if you enjoy your work, it´s not a job...!

 

Warren is well known for his witty humour and his films have always reflected that. Like this one: "If your parents didn't have children, odds are you won't either."

 

 

Borea is very excited to take part in the project of making the new Warren Miller film a reality.

 

It´s been announced that Borea has been nominated for the Scandinavian Travel Award 2008. There are two categories, innvoation and success and Borea has been nominated for best innovation. We´re of course very excited and hopefully we´ll win...!

The travel award are hosted by the German publication company ,Nordis that specializes in travel books about the Nordic countries, in cooperation with the tourism board in each of the countries, travel journalists and specialists.

 

The results will be announced during one of the biggest European travel shows in Berlin 5 March.

 

We´ll see what happens.

Penguins or Polarbears, north or south.... when we are hibernating in the northern winter in Iceland there is lots of activity with expedition yachts in the southern hemisphere. The town of Ushuaia on the northern shores of the Beagle Channel in southern Argentina has long been a base for boats exploring the Cape Horn area, Chilean channels, South Georgia, Falklands and the Antarctic Peninsula. When I received an offer to join the Australian yacht "Spirit of Sydney" as mate with skipper Ben Tucker for a trip to the Antarctic Peninsula I didn't hesitate long to give a positive answer.

We were two crew and four guests and we left Ushuaia for a short sail down the Beagle channel to the town of Puerto Williams in Chile. There we tied up at the Micalvi - the southernmost yacht club in the world - based in a grounded old coaster. We then continued towards Cape Horn, but decided to wait for improvements in the weather in the small village of Puerto Toro. Then we headed out past Cape Horn with course set for Deception Island in the South Shetlands, 500 nautical miles away.

After Deception we explored the Antarctic Peninsula south to approximately 65 1/2 degrees stopping at locations such as Enterprise Island, Paradise Harbour, Cuverville, Neumayer Channel, Port Lockroy, Argentine Islands, Hovgaard, Lemaire Channel, Palmer Base, Melchior Island etc etc.... enjoying the magnificent landscape and the varied wildlife.

We had pretty much all variants of weather from calm, cold, sunny days to pouring rain to howling gale off Cape Horn.

Attached here are a few photos from the trip.

The sun finally visited us yesterday here in Isafjordur, after hiding for two months behind the mountains. It´s a long tradition here to bake pancakes with wipped cream and marmelade on that day to celebrate the return of the sun. Now the days are getting longer and you can feel it that spring is getting closer, though few months still remains of winter.

Here is a beautiful shot taken by Agust Atlason below the Maritime Museum in Isafjordur. Agust is also our web designer.