Over the last weeks, we’ve installed sites along the periphery of the Ross Ice Shelf. At Windless Bight, we drove a Pisten Bully into the spectacular sheltered corner of the ice shelf that lies cupped under the glacial slopes of Mount Erebus and Mount Terror. At Minna Bluff, we were dropped on a rocky peninsula […]
McMurdo Station provides logistical support for operations across the continent. The food, fuel, and humans at the South Pole arrive via LC-130 cargo planes and traverse tractors from McMurdo. Numerous small field camps are staged from McMurdo and reached via helicopter, LC-130, or ski-equipped Twin Otters. The Italian and New Zealand Antarctic programs also depend […]
Coming into the galley alone, I plunked down at a table with another guy who was sitting by himself. A retired schoolteacher from Montezuma, Iowa, my table mate Paul had first come down ten or fifteen years ago in a “teacher experience” program. After his retirement from teaching, he returned to work in the McMurdo […]
