“Making Meals with Mary” – by Richmond Dykes
Richmond and Mary make pancakes for the team After a second day snowed in about 3km from the blue ice and with the weather not greatly improving, Mary Mouse and l decided to make the most of our “snow day” by watching a few movies, including Bedknobs and Broomsticks, The Young Frankenstein and The Italian Job. Now I know what you are all thinking, Richmond is such a big child; but they wer…
Taking out the Rubbish
Stuck at their overnight camp for the second night in a row thanks to whiteout condition, Ian Prickett has been putting his time to good use. In this video he kills two birds with one stone by a) taking out the rubbish, and b) videoing himself carrying out said task so that we are able to get an inside view of what it means to carry our domestic duties in the midst of an Antarctic winter.
Another White Out Halts Progress
The Ice Team is stuck in the middle of a blizzard at S71 22′ 22.4″, E023 36′ 27.8″ with near-zero visibility and gusts over 50 knots. In conditions like these it is impractical and too dangerous to carry on and so the team have to make do huddled up in the living caboose together. The conditions also hamper communications, but we will provide more updates as soon as we have news from t…
