A geomagnetic storm has lit the night skies with aurora. Two nights ago, a spectacular tall curtain of light hung to the south of camp, with parallel bands running across the sky. In person, one could just discern some coloration in the bands–a bright green stripe, then a faint, reddish glow that faded upwards, then […]

The wind is blowing. All the loose snow for three hundred miles is up in the air, and you can barely see a thing. The whole station is just a network of flag lines stretching into the opaque distance. When the visibility is like this, we follow these flag lines–bamboo pole after bamboo pole, flags […]

The ice sheet wants to consume this research station. Amid the swirls on a windy night, tendrils of snow seek across the surface, reaching for imperfections in the flat expanse. Some of our buildings have been found, captured by the drifts, and are being swallowed by the ice sheet. With time, they will be drawn […]

In the crisp air of the last two days, a strange optical phenomenon has distorted the camp surroundings. Along the horizon in every direction, a warped image of the ice sheet rises up into the sky. This stretched and mirrored mirage is caused by the refraction of light traveling through the intensely cold, still air […]