I know it’s a whole year behind, but there was a lot to learn! Editing a film to a high enough standard that would entertain more than just our mothers was as much of a challenge for Tarka as I found walking the wall. With no previous editing experience and no training, it has been an almost vertical learning curve.

To all those who have emailed in the last year asking where and when they can purchase a copy of the DVD, it is now available HERE. The successful completion on the film has been in no small part thanks to Pangaea TV, with whom we have been working on the production with and so a big thank you needs to go to them. The other big thank you goes to all of you. Without the constant emails and phone calls asking when it would be ready it probably would never have been finished

When I watch the DVD back, now it is complete, I’m just amazed at how far I have come in the past 3 years. I look at my self in the beginning of the film, and just wince at how completely out of my comfort zone I was, crying and complaining about everything and anything. Then by the end of the film I can see a change, despite the near vertical cliff faces and Siberian blizzards, I was able to look at each day with a positive attitude even if I was feeling less than ‘comfortable’! But now, as I am currently organising and gathering kit for my departure to the Arctic Ocean, my tent away from home for the next 3 months in temperature of -50°C, I am able to see how one, 6 month journey transformed my outlook on life. More than anything I have realised, what we are ALL physically and mentally capable of, and how stretching yourself beyond your usually capability makes the achievement or reward seem so much greater.

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt