Status Update
Following Rob Lambert’s blog earlier this evening, there can be few readers who do not now understand just what a nightmare the Ice Team finds themselves in on this seemingly endless patch of blue ice. I think what he writes about how it would be a breeze on foot says it all: the Cats might be the only chance of crossing the Antarctic in winter, but they have their downsides for sure. Rob wrot…
The Holey Land – by Rob Lambert
Few things in life are more disconcerting than realising you’re in the middle of a minefield. Of course, for thousands of unlucky people around the world that’s a daily reality, but that’s another story. Here we’re comparatively lucky: the ground doesn’t go bang when you step in the wrong place, but it might just give way. Crevasses: the bugbear of icy travellers, and for the last week…
