Prince Harry spends 24 hours in freezer to prepare for polar trek with injured troops

[Blackleaf]

Prince Harry is a patron of the charity Walking With The Wounded​

He will join ex-servicemen and women on a grueling trek to the South Pole
Harry and his teammates spent a day in a -35C cold chamber to prepare
They practised skiing and putting up their tent in the icy conditions

Daily Mail
17th September 2013
Rebecca English

He has always been the 'action man' of the royal family, but Prince Harry has taken on his toughest challenge yet.​

The royal, who turned 29 last Sunday, has just spent 24 hours in a giant freezer to simulate the gruelling conditions he will face when he treks to the South Pole this winter.​

Harry will take time off from his day job as an Apache helicopter pilot in the Army Air Corps to compete with a group of injured British servicemen and women in the Walking With the Wounded South Pole Allied Challenge.​

The group practised putting up tents and using cross trainers inside British engineering design specialists MIRA's whole-vehicle environmental test chambers ​

Prince Harry braved the icy conditions during a cold chamber training exercise with the 'Walking with the Wounded' South Pole Allied Challenge 2013 British team​

Get used to the cold: The youngest Prince rubbed his hands for warmth as he prepares for the South Pole​

Over 15 days in November and December, the fourth in line to the throne and his team will race against rivals from the United States and the Commonwealth to the southern-most point on the globe.​

The marathon charity effort will see them travel a distance of 208 miles, in temperatures of up to minus 50 degrees – all while carrying custom built arctic sledges known as pulks, weighing in excess of 11 stone.​

It is no mean feat considering each of Harry’s four team-mates have amputated limbs after sustaining horrific injuries in Afghanistan.​

On Monday the tightly-knit group were subjected to the cold chamber at a training facility in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, where cars and military vehicles are normally put through their paces.​

They had to ski for up to two hours at a time before taking a brief 10 minutes and then repeating it again all over again
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Read more: Prince Harry takes to ice chamber to train for polar trek with injured veterans | Mail Online
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[Spade]

Let's put a freeze on all royalty. Are there no jobs for them at Wal*Mart?

 

[L Gilbert]

"Prince Harry is a patron of the charity Walking With The Wounded

He will join ex-servicemen and women on a grueling trek to the South Pole
Harry and his teammates spent a day in a -35C cold chamber to prepare
They practised skiing and putting up their tent in the icy conditions "
We're all just thrilled to our little toes for Harry.

 

[spaminator]

I guess his royal jewels must have been frozen.

 

[Blackleaf]

Let's put a freeze on all royalty. Are there no jobs for them at Wal*Mart?

Yeah. What does Harry think he's doing trekking to the South Pole with injured servicemen to raise money for an armed forces charity whilst he's on a break from his job as an Army Air Corps Apache helicopter pilot?

He should be sat on his butt all day eating Pringles and watching Jeremy Kyle.

 

[Spade]

Armed forces should not need charity if the state lives up to its responsibilities. Should he not be railing against British minginess?

 

[Cliffy]

Do they practice going potty in the frozen wasteland? hanging the royal family jewels out in -40 can be traumatizing. I know. I've done it.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Do they practice going potty in the frozen wasteland? hanging the royal family jewels out in -40 can be traumatizing. I know. I've done it.

With whose royal family jewels?

 

[Cliffy]

With whose royal family jewels?

Mine. Mother was the last relative of Llewellyn, the last true prince of Wales. And actually, I've hung them out at -60. Pee bounces at -40.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Mine. Mother was the last relative of Llewellyn, the last true prince of Wales. And actually, I've hung them out at -60. Pee bounces at -40.

Cool. At least she wasn't another damn Cherokee princess.

 

[Blackleaf]

Armed forces should not need charity if the state lives up to its responsibilities.

Using that logic then all charities in the world should be closed down.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Using that logic then all charities in the world should be closed down.

Works for me.

 

[Blackleaf]

Works for me.

I hope you remember what you said if you reach the age of 90 and all the old age charities and old folks' homes have been closed down.

I hope you remember what you said if you ever contract cancer and all the cancer charities have been closed down.

 

[Cliffy]

Surprised Blacky has nothing to say about Llewellyn being the last true prince of Wales.

Don't need cancer clinics or charities. Cancer is easy to cure but there is too much money to be made from torturing people with radiation and chemo. CEOs of cancer charities are not willing to give up their million dollar contracts and pharmaceutical companies make billions on gullible people.

Cool. At least she wasn't another damn Cherokee princess.

Have I told you what Nakusp means? Story I get from the Sinixt elders is that when they brought the rail and paddlewheelers to this country, there were two Sinixt villages here. The men in charge of the rail and ships told the Sinixt that was to be a white village only and that they had to vacate the premisses. As they were marching the Sinixt off at gun point, the man in charge of the eviction asked the chief if they had an indian princess they could name the town after. The chief looked at him with contempt and said Nakusp and walked away. In interior Salish, Nakusp means the inedible part of the deer (sphincter). The brochures say bay of quiet waters.

PS: there are several stories how this name came about, but this one involved an indian princess. The meaning of Sinixt is always the same in every story.

 

[Blackleaf]

Surprised Blacky has nothing to say about Llewellyn being the last true prince of Wales.

That's because it's bollocks.

 

[karrie]

Yeah. What does Harry think he's doing trekking to the South Pole with injured servicemen to raise money ....
.

What utter nonsense.

What is the cost of the trek? Travel, kit, etc.? That's money OUT of the pockets of injured vets, to fund a publicity stunt. Stay home, raise the money, and give them all of it instead of spending the bulk on an expedition.

 

[Blackleaf]

That's money OUT of the pockets of injured vets

Have you got any evidence to back up your rather bizarre claim? Or is it on opinion you hold with no evidence?

I'd say the latter.

 

[karrie]

Have you got any evidence to back up your rather bizarre claim? Or is it on opinion you hold with no evidence?

I'd say the latter.

You think their travel isn't costing anything?

 

[Blackleaf]

You think their travel isn't costing anything?

I'm asking you to back up your bizarre theory that Harry is taking money out of the pockets of injured veterans. The money for the trek sure isn't from them.

Harry is GIVING money to injured vets. The charity walk is for them.

 

[Christianna]

I really don't care what anyone thinks, I like Harry, he is kind and gentle with children, and tough as nails when doing his duty to his country. Then in his off hours he knows how to have fun, with or without clothes. I think he is probably one of the most well rounded and normal of any of the royals.