All still a bit too close for comfort.
Strong winds,
only 2 days food left and only because Ousland packed an extra 10 days rations at the last moment before starting.
Lots of big leads in the ice between them & safety.
Translated by Google....
https://www.outside.fr/mike-horn-aide-et-ravitaille-ce-soir-pour-terminer-son-expedition/It is today, Wednesday, December 4, that the explorer Mike Horn and his partner Borge Ousland, both exhausted and thin, will be joined and helped by a team of two polar guides and adventurers. Enough to allow them to join the icebreaker "Lance", and put an end to their expedition.
Polar cold, galleys, storm and chocolate punctuate the last days of the South African explorer on the pack ice. Mike Horn and his Norwegian friend Borge Ousland spend their 86th day trudging through the unstable ice on the North Pole. But as the arrival looms on the horizon, the galleys are piling up ...
"The more we see the end and the harder it is," admits Mike Horn on social networks. With only three days of food, the two adventurers play on the razor's edge. A handful of chocolate temporarily softens their morale but they still have to travel 90 kilometers with a broken sled (Borge's) to the icebreaker "Lance" as a storm looms on Wednesday night. Nothing good…
Two polar adventurers to the rescue
According to our source, Lars Ebbesen, member of the team of Borge Ousland, two Norwegian adventurous guides started skiing on their meeting this Tuesday at 17:53. This decision was bolstered by the storm on the pack ice on Tuesday, which is set to go on Wednesday. Bengt Rotmo and Aleksander Range have therefore descended from the icebreaker "Lance", caught in the ice of the pack ice where the thickness reaches 1.20 meters in some places. Knut Espen Solberg - explorer and polar guide - and Dr. Martin Skrove, members of Borge's team, are on board and overseeing the support expedition.
The two rescuers must travel 40 kilometers to join Mike and Borge party to meet them. The two adventurers also tackle 40 kilometers of skiing to make the junction. Not insignificant when you know that their daily average is only 15 kilometers. This Tuesday evening, at 22:55, Bengt and Aleksander had traveled 11 kilometers and this morning at 11:00, they had reached the geographical position 82'20 degrees North and 20'20 degrees East.
Borge's team, present on the icebreaker "Lance", provides a return of explorers Thursday evening or Friday, according to the evolution of the last storm that must touch them on Wednesday night. The call to a helicopter in case of force majeure is not excluded, even if the respective teams of Mike and Borge would prefer to respect the desire of the adventurers to complete their expedition as they had initially envisaged.