Not going nowhere
Whiteout conditions, 35knot winds and heavy drifting snow put paid to the Ice Team’s hopes of reaching Crown Bay today. Not sure who that is in the picture, but given that he has a drill in his hand my money is on Ian…
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…
