Escarpment – by Brian Newham
Today We were extremely fortunate to have had such good conditions yesterday and to have taken full advantage of them. Whilst the weather wasn’t bad today, the visibility has been quite limited and it would have been hard to do a meaningful reconnaissance of the route ahead . With that already done and some of the loads already moved through this tricky section, as we did yesterday, we had good…
Meteorological Observations
Every morning and every evening Brian our Ice Team leader braves the cold and windy conditions to take meteorological observations as part of our very many scientific projects during the expedition. These then get sent back to the Met Office in the UK for analysis and archiving. Below you will find the bulk of Brian’s findings in the form of four interesting graphs charting the temperature,…