We were really fighting until the end. Even so close to the pole, I wasn't so sure we would make it.

Suddenly, about two miles from the pole, we started to come across open water. One of the sledges ended up getting dunked in water, and some of the dogs as well.

We were battling a negative ice drift,

Sedna, the Inuit goddess of the sea, is smirking. That's what polar travel is all about.

It sucks all the energy out of you when it is minus-40 degrees. You're trying to get out of your sleeping bag and there is ice everywhere. Getting dressed . . . you really have to concentrate. It was exhausting . . . but we hung in there. We're here now.

Steve eats, sleeps, breathes the facts of the case. I was just glad to see him back in the courtroom.