YOUR CHANCE TO MEET THE ICE TEAM!
On the morning of Tuesday the 26th November, Sir Ranulph Fiennes and the Ice Team will be available for a Q&A session live on Camup.com. All you will need is a webcam and an internet connection to watch the web streaming event available to our followers all over the world. If you want to be one of the lucky ones to ask them a question, make a donation using the link below…
Getting Home
An aircraft, the IL76, departed Cape Town this morning heading for Novo with an eta of 1310GMT. The plan was that when it landed at Novo some of the passengers would get straight onto a Twin Otter bound for Princess Elisabeth. They would then get off at PE and the Ice Team would get on and fly back to Novo where the IL76 would be waiting. We have not had confirmation from the team yet that a…
Bang
By Brian Newham (sent to Operations UK earlier today over a slow internet connection) At last everything is falling into place: the weather looks good and within just a few hours we expect to see an aircraft landing on the skiway. Onboard will be a group of scientists at the beginning of their summer season’s work at Princess Elisabeth Station. As they get out of the aircraft we will say our…
