Snow - Part 5

Castle Rock

January 24, 2006

Stepping off of the ski-equipped LC-130 Hercules aircraft at Williams Field on the Antarctic coast after the three hour flight from the Pole, the…

January 23, 2006

Returning to the vibrant land of color was a re-awaking process like I’ve never experienced before. It all started when I deplaned in Christchurch,…

December 31, 2005

Life at the pole has become routine. From the outside, it might seem that being at the South Pole could be anything but routine….

December 24, 2005

The wreckage of Skier 917 has been found. To be fair, we knew all along where it was. After all, it was being used…

December 17, 2005

It was our weekend of Antarctic car camping. An instructor came up from McMurdo to take a group of us “Polies” out into the…

December 11, 2005

Every year since 1990 the meteorological (MET) department goes out to measure how much snow drift has accumulated over the previous year. About half…

November 27, 2005

Here at the Pole, we celebrated Thanksgiving on Saturday. And by celebrate, I mean we got the day off from work and consequently, our…

November 20, 2005

Things are really swinging here at the Pole now. I’ve joined the South Pole Station Fire Brigade and we’ve had a few fire alarms,…

November 7, 2005

I was told when I applied for the job that there would be a lot of snow shoveling, especially for the first month. There…

October 27, 2005

Mine may well have been one of the fastest trips to the South Pole. Amundsen, who led the first party to reach the South…