Frostbite forces Jamaican to quit icy expedition

[Mosiah]

Frostbite forces Jamaican to quit icy expedition
Published: Tuesday | November 24, 2009


Jamaican Kim-Marie Spence has been forced to abandon plans to take part in an Antarctic expedition that began on the weekend.

"It is with much regret that 30-year-old Kim-Marie Spence from Kingston, Jamaica, has had to leave the Kaspersky Lab Commonwealth Antarctic Expedition, due to frostbite on her fingers," stated a news bulletin from the expedition yesterday afternoon.

"The team left base camp at Patriot Hills at the weekend and started skiing the 900km to the South Pole on Sunday but, fol-lowing medical advice, Kim-Marie Spence has not joined them and is instead flying home to Jamaica."

http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/glean...ead/lead6.html

[Mosiah]

This is devastating news for me. Kim-Marie, a good friend of mine, is one of the most out-going, positive, achieving and bright young ladies you'll ever meet. I know she wanted to be a part of this expedition and trained very hard for it.

I know she's already up to something else. Do yuh ting, Ms. Spence!

[Gamma]

well..... mi coulda tell har seh wi is not a col' wedda set a people!

[Hortical]

Just curious, what kind of cold weather training?

[Gamma]

and ... er... where? blue mountain?

[Hortical]

Well sah, it is clear her training was inadequate. What a wasted opportunity!
Mi nuh know bout her training, but if a mi go deh so, mi would a be living & camping in Iceland and getting acclimated fi cold weather.

[Mosiah]

Di whole a unnu always tink say Jamaican people nuh have nuh sense. First ting, she is a Rhodes Scholar who has lived in many cold climes, but on top of that, she went to Norway and trained there. Or should she have gone straight to the South Pole for training?!

Tiyad a some a unnu yankee Jamaicans. Is a good ting me did get some sense tuh when mi did live deh fi a likkle while, but it look like since mi come back all a it just evaporate inna di hot air!

sigh!

[Hortical]

How yuh so sensitive brethren, yuh neva get any tips yesterday?

[Islandman]

LOL! Courtney aka Mankind is smiling wherever he is.

Have to agree with you though, we too judgemental sometime before we even know the full story.

[Mosiah]

sensitive?? why yuh tink i'm being sensitive?!?

[Lionpaw]

she shoulda carry mi fi kip har warm.

[Mosiah]

how yuh a go do dat when your extremities dun drop off a dutty?

[MdmeX]

well..... mi coulda tell har seh wi is not a col' wedda set a people!

60 degrees is col' enufff fi me! Much more MINUS

[Don1]

Frostbite forces Jamaican to quit icy expedition
Published: Tuesday | November 24, 2009


Jamaican Kim-Marie Spence has been forced to abandon plans to take part in an Antarctic expedition that began on the weekend.

"It is with much regret that 30-year-old Kim-Marie Spence from Kingston, Jamaica, has had to leave the Kaspersky Lab Commonwealth Antarctic Expedition, due to frostbite on her fingers," stated a news bulletin from the expedition yesterday afternoon.

"The team left base camp at Patriot Hills at the weekend and started skiing the 900km to the South Pole on Sunday but, fol-lowing medical advice, Kim-Marie Spence has not joined them and is instead flying home to Jamaica."

http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/glean...ead/lead6.html

Yu need to check out Newton who did that 1000+ mile dogsled race in Alaska last year and is now preparing for the Iditarod...the grandaddy of them all.

Met the yute at a trade show @ the Javits Center a month ago...very positive...nuttun nah tap im.

Sundogs....the movie http://www.jamaicadogsled.com/press.php

[Baddaz]

i only hope she is alright and she will not have to lose her fingers... For them to send her home it has to be serious...

wish her well...