Today key overland team members, film production staff and medical consultants came together to discuss the medical research at the heart of the expedition. Scientific expedition meetings can take place just about anywhere and this one occurred, quite literally, in the corner of one of London’s busiest hospitals. It was a place for discussing the merits and risks of putting people under extreme stress in cold weather in order to study cellular…magic stuff (We can’t give away all the details…watch this space!).

