The team set sail from London in December and were building a base camp and supply depot inland from Crown Bay when Fiennes developed the case of frostbite.
On Valentine's Day 2007, as his marriage was collapsing, Mr. Welch called Ms. Palermo from the balcony of his apartment building near Camp Pendleton in Southern California and said he was thinking of diving off.
Placards bearing unflattering comments about the German Chancellor Angela Merkel peppered their morning marches, orchestrated to pass under the gaze of the cameras of hundreds of journalists who set up campin one of Nicosia's main squares and at the parliament building.