Brian’s Answers
The weather at overnight camp has deteriorated, rather than improved. The temperature is hovering around minus 30C, but the average wind speed has crept up to 45 knots with gusts of 56 knots; visibility is about 3m and there is heavy drifting snow, so there has been no chance for travel today unfortunately. It has, however, given the team the chance to catch up on other tasks and duties. On…
Windy Out There
Twice a day the team have to take weather observations for the science programme, the Met, the app and so on. WHATEVER the conditions, out they must go. In this video by Ian we see Brian taking tonight’s wind recording (35 knots, 44 knot gusts). The sound is pretty poor but that’s because they didn’t take the mics. Still, you get the idea. &nbs…
Ouch!
Now this is what you call a needle!! All in the name of science. In five hours’s time, Ian can have his first cuppa! Shame.
Negotiating Crevasses
Okay, so we have not put too many updates up the last 48 hours. Sorry about that. To make up for it, here is something to get your juices flowing. It shows the Cats in action over a crevasse field and describes the process the guys have to go through to pass these hazardous areas safely. By Ian Prickett &nbs…
Home Improvements
With Spencer and Richmond getting their hands dirty with some routine maintence on the Cats today, the others got busy making some more home improvements while they had the chance. In this photo Ian Prickett gets ready to install a window cover to the living caboose. Zero milage today, so the team is hoping to make good progress tomorrow to keep progress on the right track.
Status Update
Another day of decent progress today, covering 18km across partly crevassed areas without any problems. We are now camped at the bottom of the next technical section (see pic) which will require us to ferry loads for 7km. It will probably take five loads with both Cats taking each load. Round trip will be about 3hrs, so it won’t be a fast process. Tomorrow we have another day’s work on one of…
In the Name of Science – by Rob Lambert
Richmond and Spencer go head to head during a science test – by Rob Lambert There are many things I love about being a doctor: there’s the simple, utter joy of working for the NHS; there’s the stratospherically high salary, share options, & company car; and of course there’s… that misty-eyed look of awe / admiration / lust that invariably appears on the face of pretty girls you meet at…
A Good Day
After the frustrations of the last two days, today has been a good day. Having started the vehicle preheat before the sun rose and quickly reassembled the Ice Train, we were on the move by 0830. It was an overcast start with poor contrast and no horizon but the vehicles are now both running well and we were soon clocking up some distance. It stayed like that for much of the day until lat…
Pic of the Day
by Brian Newham…
Status Update
Spencer at Work – by Brian Newham For the eagle-eyed among you, you will have noticed from the Live Map that the Ice Train has not moved very much the last couple of days – indeed, it has not moved since covering five kilometres yesterday morning. This is due to the fact that unscheduled maintenance work has had to be carried out to one of the Cats. It is very frustrating since the weather has…
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