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 .