A Friendly Visit
“Princess Elisabeth Station – the first and, currently, only “zero emission” research facility in Antarctica” – by Ian Prickett On Saturday evening we were fortunate enough to be invited to the Belgians Research centre for dinner. Due to a rather long day prior to this and not enough distance gained due to poor snow conditions, we had contacted the Belgian team earlier in the day to let them know…
Boys’ Toys
By Rob Lambert No matter how much planning, preparation, and experience you bring to your endeavours, there’s no substitute for on-the-job learning. They say every day’s a school day, and during this depot run we’re all learning plenty – about each other, about our surroundings, and about the equipment which we’re depending on to cross Antarctica this winter. The Boys (as we’re all now calling…
Blue Ice and Mountains
By Brian Newham. Yesterday was a long day and today isn’t to be any shorter but we really want to make the most of the good weather. Despite a fresh breeze it is sunny with great visibility so we need to push southwards. By late morning we arrived at an area of ‘Blue Ice’. It’s a term used to describe a surface that is just that – it’s like an ice rink but with a few surface imperfections. They…
The Dig
The Ice Team had their work cut out for them when they woke up this morning to find their fuel sleds imbedded in two days and nights of snowdrift. Perseverance paid off and they finished the day 39km further south than when they started. Good work…
On the Move
A sunny but breezy morning. 25kts and low drift. Took us about three hrs to get dug out and the Ice Train reassembled. Now we are trucking at around 5km/hr. Need to make some mileage today so likely to be a long one. Update by Brian Newham, Travers…
Short Video by Ian Prickett
Check out this BRILLIANT short film compiled by none other than Ice Team handyman Ian Prickett. Are there no ends to this young man’s talents. This is the best thing I have seen come out of the Antarctic yet. Well, on this expedition anyway. Enjoy! Hugh Bowring, Operations…
Daily Report
Every day the Operations Team in the UK gets sent a report on the day’s actitivies compiled by Brian Newham, including weather conditions, distance travelled and current position. In the spirit of sharing, here’s today’s: Best wishes, Hugh – Operations HQ Daily Report Sunday 10th Feb 2013 Current position S70 33′ 36.7″” E023 28′ 05.1″ (same as yesterday) Distance travelled today zero km Weather…
Short Video of D6N Shifting a Scoots
Here’s a quick snapshot from arriving at our overnight camp tonight . We are moving all the fuel scoots into a compressed bundle to limit the amount of blown snow in-between. Our Living and Science Cabooses have been detached as well to stop the wind tails that a 25 knot blowing snow storm can create. By Ian Prickett [video…
Blowing Snow
By Brian Newham (written on Saturday evening) A grey and breezy start to the day which gradually deteriorated into blowing snow and visibility of only about 100m. Anyone who knows the term “whiteout” will know what we have been experiencing – the sky merges with the ground, there is no contrast at all and its quite disorientating. Despite the conditions we were able to push slowly southwards and…
We’re On Our Way – At Last!
Spencer Smirl’s latest blog. The first successful day of travel finally happened. Well, not completely successful, but just about. Yesterday was Thursday the 7th of February. It was our 18th day on the Antarctic continent. Long days spent unloading and assembling our massive amount of kit. The sun never stopped shining and the temperature didn’t spend much time below zero. The struggles of coping…
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