TRAVERSE 100 dio, and Kirsten Seaver of the Monaro Post who came snow shoeing over the summit as we sat drinking whisky that Duncan’ s grandmother had given us. We toasted ourselves, but moreso Wally who was the only member of the team to ride uninterrupted for 2152km from start to finish. We joked that he was our Tenzing, and that all our hard work was just to put him on the summit.
en ourselves the turn-around time of noon but it was barely 8am when we paused at Seaman’ s Hut to sip warm sweet tea. We were still walking on top of the crust up until Rawson’ s Pass where we saw the tops of bike racks poking farcically out of the snow. This should have been the high point of our cycle journey, just 1.5 kilometres from the summit.
From here we took a traversing path across a snow field. The time was approximately 10.20am when we trickled onto the top of Australia, the TABs( Temporarily Able Bodied) first, then Conrad and I followed by Duncan and Walter. We all got very emotional. The strain of keeping it together for 42 days, and suddenly being freed, was as though a levee had broken. We all shed tears and then it was time to take interviews from local and national ra-
TRAVERSE 100 dio, and Kirsten Seaver of the Monaro Post who came snow shoeing over the summit as we sat drinking whisky that Duncan’ s grandmother had given us. We toasted ourselves, but moreso Wally who was the only member of the team to ride uninterrupted for 2152km from start to finish. We joked that he was our Tenzing, and that all our hard work was just to put him on the summit.